Queen Elizabeth to Receive BioNtech, Pfizer Vaccine

Today, British media reports revealed that Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip in the coming weeks will receive the BioNtech and Pfizer vaccine.

The vaccine recently received the green light from the British health authorities to combat the Coronavirus.

"The Times" newspaper quoted unnamed aides of the British royal family as saying that Britain's Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip may "announce to the people" that they will receive the Covid-19 vaccine as soon as this happens.

The 94-year-old queen and her 99-year-old husband are likely to be among the first to receive the vaccine. The government prioritizing the elderly at the time BioNtech and Pfizer started their vaccine, which was approved on December 2.

The Queen is well respected in British society, and her public support for the vaccine will be a powerful message in the face of the misleading anti-vaccination information circulating on the Internet.

The Coronavirus has so far killed more than 60,000 people and infected more than 1,700,000 in Britain. The royal family was not immune from the pandemic, as Crown Prince Charles and his eldest son Prince William tested positive for it earlier this year.

According to the government's list of priorities for launching the vaccine, the first doses will be allocated to inmates of nursing homes and those who look after them, and after that will be the elderly over the age of 80 years and workers in the health services field.

"The Times" reported that in 1957 Queen Elizabeth announced that Prince Charles and his sister Princess Anne, who were eight and six years old at the time, had received the polio vaccine, which helped calm concerns about the possible side effects of what was considered a new vaccine at the time.

On its part, the "Mail on Sunday" newspaper reported that the Queen and her husband Prince Philip will be vaccinated on a priority basis, given their age, and not under preferential treatment.

According to the newspaper, these two older members of the royal family will receive this vaccination publicly to "encourage as many people as possible to receive it," at a time when the authorities fear that anti-vaccine activists will raise suspicions about it among the population.

Britain has given the green light to the Coronavirus vaccine, developed by BioNtech and Pfizer, in preparation for a vaccination campaign that will start with the elderly and people who are considered the most vulnerable.