London:
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday, Buckingham Palace stated, in a uncommon public comment on the private overall health matters of the extended-serving monarch.
“The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have today received Covid-19 vaccinations,” a Buckingham Palace spokesman stated.
A supply told the domestic Press Association news agency that the queen, 94, and Philip, 99, had been provided the injections by a royal household physician at Windsor Castle.
No additional facts about the vaccinations had been released.
More than 1.5 million men and women in Britain have so far received virus jabs, as the largest immunisation programme in its history ramps up with priority provided to the elderly, their carers and overall health workers.
The nation, which has so far begun administering two forms of authorized vaccines, is racing to inoculate as numerous men and women as doable as a coronavirus variant pushes infections and deaths to unprecedented levels.
Britain on Friday reported a record 1,325 deaths more than a 24-hour period, bringing the total quantity of deaths to almost 80,000, even though also registering a higher of 68,053 new instances.
The queen and Philip have spent substantially of the pandemic in self-isolation at Windsor mainly because of their sophisticated age, and this year saw their conventional household Christmas at her Sandringham estate in eastern England with other royals scrapped.
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