Chinese media slams UK for ‘elderly first’ approach to vaccine rollout as country prioritises jabbing working population
Updated: 5 Jan 2021, 17:42
CHINESE state media has blasted the UK for choosing to vaccinate the elderly first against coronavirus.
Along with many other western countries, the UK has decided to prioritise giving jabs to the older generation, while in China government and public service workers aged between 18 and 59 are getting the jab first.
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Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin has blasted the UK s elderly first vaccine approachCredit: Getty Images - Getty
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Brian Pinker, 82, was the first person in the world to get the Oxford Covid vaccineCredit: PA:Press Association
The drive to vanquish the coronavirus gained ground Monday when Britain introduced another COVID-19 vaccine and the first people inoculated in the U.S.
For the brilliant Britons who wrote their names into the history books yesterday, the evening of Sunday, November 22 will be forever etched in their memory.
Burnt out after toiling around the clock with microscopes and pipettes for 11 months, the scientists and doctors – most of them women – were enjoying some rare downtime in homes dotted around Oxfordshire when they received the call they had prayed for, confirming the vaccine was effective.
Professor Sarah Gilbert, the 58-year-old mother of triplets who designed it, recalls how she was quietly reading a book when the phone rang with the joyous news.
Biologist Catherine Green, who created the cell culture from which the first doses were made, admits to being so overcome with emotion that she ‘had a good cry’. The next morning she awoke to find a magnum of ‘English fizz’ on her porch.
| UPDATED: 13:40, Wed, Dec 16, 2020
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