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News Articles: U.K.

Health regulators in the U.K. warned people with severe allergies not to get the new coronavirus vaccine after two medical staffers came down with severe reactions.

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U.K. Regulators Tell People With Severe Allergies Not To Get Vaccine

Two National Health Service workers with long histories of severe allergies received the Pfizer, BioNTech coronavirus vaccine Tuesday. Both are now recovering after bad reactions to the dose.

December 09, 2020
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
The U.K. launched its largest-ever immunization program Tuesday. Health officials began dispensing doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, first vaccinating health care workers and residents over the age of 80.

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U.K. Begins Nationwide Coronavirus Immunization, Largest In Nation's History

A 90-year-old woman from Coventry received the first vaccine shot as part of the United Kingdom's nationwide immunization campaign launched Tuesday.

December 08, 2020
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
A National Health Service pharmacy technician at the Royal Free Hospital in London simulates the preparation of the Pfizer vaccine Friday for support staff training ahead of this week's rollout.

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1st Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccine To Be Administered This Week In The U.K.

The U.K. was the first Western country to approve Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use. In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration could vote to approve the vaccine as early as Thursday.

December 06, 2020
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
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.

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  • Global Health

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."

December 04, 2020
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  • Bill Chappell
The U.K. has approved the Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use.

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U.K. Approves Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine For Emergency Use

A British regulatory agency approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine Wednesday. It could be dispersed within days to the neediest people, government officials said.

December 02, 2020
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Charlotte Charles, mother of 19-year-old Harry Dunn, is seen in Charlton, England, on Tuesday. Dunn's family lost a court battle with the U.K. government over whether the American driver who fatally struck their son had diplomatic immunity.

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  • Law

Parents Of Man Killed In U.K. Crash Lose Their Challenge To U.S. Diplomatic Immunity

Harry Dunn's family argued the U.K. government had wrongly granted Anne Sacoolas diplomatic immunity. Sacoolas, the wife of a U.S. diplomat, is charged in his death but fled to the U.S.

November 24, 2020
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  • Laurel Wamsley
The eldest sister of Shamima Begum holds her sister's photo in 2015. Begum, who left London to join the Islamic State organization as a teenager, is now trying to return to the U.K. to argue that her British citizenship should not have been revoked.

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Court Considers Whether Woman Who Joined ISIS As A Teen Is Allowed To Return To U.K.

Shamima Begum, now 21, left London with two other schoolgirls in 2015 to join the terrorist organization and is now in a detention camp in Syria. The U.K. revoked her citizenship last year.

November 23, 2020
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  • Laurel Wamsley
If the U.K.'s rate of new coronavirus cases doubles four more times, Chief Scientific Advisor Sir Patrick Vallance said, "you would end up with something like 50,000 cases in the middle of October per day."

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In A Month, U.K. Could See 50,000 New Coronavirus Cases A Day, Expert Warns

"The epidemic is doubling roughly every seven days," the U.K.'s top science adviser says, warning of a dangerously high rate of new coronavirus cases.

September 21, 2020
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  • Bill Chappell
A security camera and flag adorn the entrance to the Russian Embassy in London. On Tuesday, lawmakers slammed the British government for failing to look into possible Russian interference in U.K. politics.

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  • Europe

U.K. 'Actively Avoided' Investigating Russian Interference, Lawmakers Find

The report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee said government did little to find out if Russia tried to influence the Brexit referendum. "They did not want to know," a lawmaker said.

July 21, 2020
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  • Colin Dwyer
A new sculpture by local artist Marc Quinn, depicting Black Lives Matter protester Jen Reid, stands on the plinth where the Edward Colston statue used to rest in Bristol.

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  • Europe

Black Lives Matter Monument Replaces Statue Of Slave Trader In England

Edward Colston's statue had stood in Bristol for 125 years before protesters toppled it in June. Now, a very different figure has taken its place — but it won't last long without the city's approval.

July 15, 2020
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  • Colin Dwyer
Anna Stewart is a CNN reporter based at the network's London bureau.

Brits Head To The Polls Still Divided Over Brexit

As Americans find themselves divided over impeachment, Brits are at odds over Brexit. That's the nation’s divorce from the European Union. London’s Big...

December 12, 2019
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  • Rickey Bevington

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