The United Kingdom's COVID-19 vaccination program is an ongoing mass immunisation campaign that began on December 8, 2020, when Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world outside a clinical trial to receive a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Regulated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the program primarily used the Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines, delivered through a phased priority order starting with care home residents, health workers and the elderly. As recorded in the article's infobox, more than 53.7 million people had received at least one dose, more than 50.4 million had completed a two-dose course, and more than 40.1 million and 6.2 million had received third and fourth doses respectively.
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Health Goalimmunisation of the public in the United Kingdom against COVID-19 1 Geographic Scope Measured Results92.9 percent of the population aged 12 and over received one dose, 86.8 percent received two doses, 69 percent received three doses 1 Program status (class) Classification
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The COVID-19 vaccination programme in the United Kingdom is an ongoing mass immunisation campaign for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
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Immunisation of the public in the United Kingdom against COVID-19
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92.9% of population 12+ received one dose; 86.8% received two doses; 69% received three doses
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Location: United Kingdom
- Wikipedia 'COVID-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom': explicitly 'is an ongoing mass immunisation campaign'; checked 2026-09-27.
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The COVID-19 vaccination programme in the United Kingdom is an ongoing mass immunisation campaign for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Vaccinations began on 8 December 2020 after Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world (outside trials) to receive her first dose of two of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
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According to a June 2022 study published in The Lancet, COVID-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom prevented an additional 507,000 deaths from 8 December 2020 to 8 December 2021.
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