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The UK’s Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, have been vaccinated towards the novel coronavirus, the Buckingham Palace confirmed in a press release.
The vaccinations had been administered on Saturday by a family physician on the Windsor Castle the place the royal couple have been staying since early final 12 months, Xinhua information company quoted British media stories as saying citing a supply.
The supply added the Queen determined to let it’s recognized she had the vaccination to stop additional hypothesis.
The Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are amongst round 1.5 million folks within the UK to have had at the very least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to date.
People aged over 80 within the nation are among the many high-priority teams who’re being given the vaccine first.
It has not been disclosed which of the vaccines the royal couple acquired.
On Friday, a 3rd coronavirus vaccine was authorised to be used within the nation, because the UK recorded the best variety of coronavirus deaths, in addition to the best day by day enhance of circumstances.
As of Sunday morning, the general Covid-19 circumstances and deaths within the UK stood at 3,026,313 and 81,000, respectively.
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