Covid-19: Pfizer vaccine may not go to care home residents

Covid-19: Pfizer vaccine may not go to care home residents A director of public heath said care home residents may not get the newly-approved Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

Care home residents and staff are top of the government's provisional priority list for any vaccine.

But Northamptonshire's health chief, Lucy Wightman, said the Pfizer vaccine's storage and transportation requirements made that a "challenge". BBC Northampton

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