LONDON (UK) – Nadhim Zahawi, the ministers in charge of deployment of the coronavirus vaccine, said on Wednesday that 140,000 people have been given the Pfizer and BioNTech-developed shots against the coronavirus in the first week of its roll-out.
“A really good start to the vaccination programme. It’s been 7 days and we have done: England: 108,000, Wales: 7,897, Northern Ireland: 4,000, Scotland: 18,000. U.K Total 137,897,” Nadhim Zahawi said in a tweet.
“That number will increase as we have operationalised hundreds of PCN (primary care networks),” he said.
