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COVID-19 Vaccination in the United Kingdom

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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.

Facts
Launch Year
2020 1
Health Goal
immunisation of the public in the United Kingdom against COVID-19 1
Geographic Scope
United Kingdom 1
Measured Results
92.9 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)
Ongoing 1
Classification
Program Kind
Vaccination or Immunization Program 1
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Sources
1. COVID-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom, Wikipedia
  • Infobox, Date field
    Date: 8 December 2020 - present
  • Infobox, Cause field
    Immunisation of the public in the United Kingdom against COVID-19
  • Infobox, Outcome field
    92.9% of population 12+ received one dose; 86.8% received two doses; 69% received three doses
  • Infobox, Location field
    Location: United Kingdom
  • Wikipedia 'COVID-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom': explicitly 'is an ongoing mass immunisation campaign'; checked 2026-09-27.
  • Program classification, entity description sentence
    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.
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