Most other primary schools in England are still scheduled to open on Monday. Field hospitals that were built last spring but were then mothballed are getting outfitted again to take in patients. On the inoculations front, Britain began vaccinating people over 80 and health care workers on Dec. 8 with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. Last week, the government approved another vaccine made by Oxford University and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca that is cheaper and easier to use. The Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath in southern England was one of the first to get the newly approved vaccine on Saturday.

Source: Daily Sun January 02, 2021 17:48 UTC