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It is the first European country to take the plunge: the United Kingdom will vaccinate its population against the Covid-19 from next week, with injections starting on Tuesday. Until then, the last details must be settled: routing, storage and management of all the personnel called for this vaccination. Since the vaccine approval was announced, 50 hospitals across the country have been on the alert.
It is in fact in these hospitals that the first vaccines will be administered Tuesday by the nursing teams. “We hope to vaccinate 400 people a day very quickly, then increase to 500, and we are already looking at how we can organize ourselves if we have to increase this rate,” testifies one of them in a Coventry hospital.
The nursing homes and their staff in two weeks
From December 14, the British will also be able to be vaccinated in certain doctors’ offices, fitted out for vaccination. “Even if we are nervous, we are also excited”, thus testifies a general practitioner of the north-west of London at the microphone of Europe 1. “In recent weeks, we have worked a lot to be ready, and several of us even volunteered to work overtime. “
People over 80 and hospital staff will be the first to be vaccinated. For logistical reasons, the immunization of nursing home residents and their caregivers will not begin for another two weeks. 40 million doses of Pfizer vaccine have been ordered, enough to immunize 20 million people. Among the first vaccinated patients will be Queen Elisabeth, 94, and her husband, Prince Philippe, 99.
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