US Covid vaccination ‘mission begins’

The US public will begin receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from Monday after it was authorised for emergency use.

Gen Gustave Perna, talking for the US authorities’s vaccination marketing campaign Operation Warp Speed, informed reporters that doses of the vaccine could be packed for transportation “within the next 24 hours”.

He mentioned it was the start of a mission to “defeat the enemy” of Covid-19.