First vaccinations in UK care homes and surgeries

Family doctors in England started to minister COVID-19 iculations on Monday, in latest st of U.K.’s mass vaccination program.

National Health Service said hundreds of general medical clinics across England were taking delivery of Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine.

Priority would go to people who are 80 and older, as well as staff and residents of care homes, it said.

Britain launched its vaccination program this month after becoming first country to give emergency approval to Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, and authorities plan to dispense 800,000 doses in first phase.

Thousands of health service workers and vaccinators have alrey received shot.

In Scotland, elderly residents of nursing homes also started getting vaccine on Monday.

first was a woman d 90, Annie Innes.

"I think everybody should get it, because it's protecting or people," Innes said afterwards.