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London, United Kingdom – United Kingdom health workers have welcomed the mass immunisation programme against COVID-19 as “the light at the end of the tunnel”.
December 8 – dubbed “V-Day” – marked the beginning of the National Health Service’s (NHS) largest vaccination drive in history.
Medical professionals will be among the first inoculated.
The push comes as the UK continues to grapple with one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in Europe.
More than 65,000 people have died with the virus, a figure that includes hundreds of front-line healthcare workers.
Here, in their own words, medics from across the UK speak of a year of crisis unlike any other in modern history and their hopes for an end to the pandemic.