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    U.K. Will Start Immunizing People Against COVID-19 On Tuesday, Officials Say

    Mass vaccinations will start less than a week after the U.K. approved the new drug. Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford says it could start "a long path back to normality."
    by Bill Chappell Dec 04, 2020 2 minutes
    The U.K. will begin a mass vaccination against COVID-19 on Tuesday, as hundreds of thousands of doses of Pfizer's vaccine reach the public. Here, a temperature-controlled cold storage truck leaves a Pfizer facility in Belgium Thursday.

    The U.K. will administer its first doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, government and health officials say, raising hopes that the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech could help them tame the coronavirus.

    "We're looking forward to the race starting on Tuesday," Chris Hopson, CEO of the U.K.'s NHS Providers, said Friday . His organization represents hospitals and

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