
At 6:31am GMT on Tuesday 8 December, a 90-year-old British grandmother made world history.
Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive dose one of the two dose Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial. Twenty one days later, as 2020 ended, Margaret received her second and final dose. In doing so she initiated a mass population vaccination programme that is likely to dominate the UK’s public health agenda for years to come.