Here is a look at how the vaccination programme unfolded.
– December 2: The UK becomes the first country in the world to approve the coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.
– December 8: Grandmother Margaret Keenan, 90, becomes the first patient in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as the NHS launches its biggest ever vaccine campaign.
Margaret Keenan, 90,became the first person in the UK to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine at University Hospital, Coventry (Jacob King/PA)
– December 30: A Covid-19 vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca is approved for use in the UK.
Meanwhile, The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said more at-risk people need to be vaccinated faster and it is agreed to delay the second dose of both vaccines, with a new plan to give second jabs within 12 weeks of the first.