<p class="bodytext">Britain began inoculating its citizens with the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine against Covid-19 on Monday, giving the shot to Brian Pinker, an 82-year-old dialysis patient, at a hospital a few hundred metres away from where the vaccine was developed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pinker, a retired maintenance manager, paid tribute to the scientists who had developed the shot, saying he was looking forward to celebrating his wedding anniversary.</p>.<p class="bodytext"><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/after-covishield-and-covaxin-these-covid-19-vaccine-candidates-in-the-race-934963.html">After Covishield and Covaxin, these Covid-19 vaccine candidates in the race</a></strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">"I am so pleased to be getting the Covid vaccine today and really proud that it is one that was invented in Oxford," he said in a statement released by the health service.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Andrew Pollard, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group and chief investigator into the trial of the shot, also received the vaccine, the National Health Service (NHS) said.</p>
<p class="bodytext">Britain began inoculating its citizens with the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine against Covid-19 on Monday, giving the shot to Brian Pinker, an 82-year-old dialysis patient, at a hospital a few hundred metres away from where the vaccine was developed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pinker, a retired maintenance manager, paid tribute to the scientists who had developed the shot, saying he was looking forward to celebrating his wedding anniversary.</p>.<p class="bodytext"><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/after-covishield-and-covaxin-these-covid-19-vaccine-candidates-in-the-race-934963.html">After Covishield and Covaxin, these Covid-19 vaccine candidates in the race</a></strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">"I am so pleased to be getting the Covid vaccine today and really proud that it is one that was invented in Oxford," he said in a statement released by the health service.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Andrew Pollard, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group and chief investigator into the trial of the shot, also received the vaccine, the National Health Service (NHS) said.</p>