BBC World Service Online

Migrated podcast image for: Weekend Break

Weekend

News

A review of the week with the latest news.

Weekend: Roll-out of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine due to begin in UK in coming days

Magazines & Reviews

06/12/2020 GMT

Roll-out of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine due to begin in UK in coming days

BBC World Service - Weekend, Roll-out of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine due to begin in UK in coming days

Starting Tuesday certain groups will start getting Covid-19 vaccine

Starting Tuesday certain groups such as frontline health staff, people over the age of 80 and care home workers will start getting Covid-19 vaccine.

Britain’s National Health Service will begin what it calls the largest-ever vaccine roll-out in UK history on Tuesday. So what can we expect as the vaccine makes its way into the population? We’ll hear from Professor Anthony Harnden, the deputy chair of the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. Also: mass testing for coronavirus is underway in Austria to locate and isolate infected people before the Christmas holidays, and would you eat lab grown meat?

(Photo: Nurses at the Royal Free Hospital, London, simulate the administration of the Pfizer vaccine to support staff training ahead of the roll-out. Credit: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

BBC World Service

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service News Internet

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Weekend

Roll-out of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine due to begin in UK in coming days

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service