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US authorises Pfizer vaccine

12/12/2020 GMT

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US Food and Drug Administration approves Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine.

The US Food and Drug Administration has authorised the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use. President Donald Trump said it would be made available for free to all Americans and that the first inoculations would take place within 24 hours.

Also in the programme: Brexit negotiations resume and are countries doing enough to prevent a climate change catastrophe?

(Photo: A vial of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Credit: Liam McBurney/Reuters)

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