News24.com | WATCH | Briton, 90, first person to receive Pfizer Covid vaccine

Britain on Tuesday began the biggest vaccination programme in the country's history, with a 90-year-old grandmother becoming the first person to receive the Covid vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech.

The historic inoculation was given to Margaret Keenan in Coventry, central England.

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