The Guardian view on Vaccine Day: an opportunity to seize | Editorial

Protecting patients from Covid-19 is a wonderful step forward. But we cannot yet afford to relax our guardCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe face of hope in 2020 is 90-year-old Margaret Keenan, thefirst patient worldwide to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. After a year mostly spent self-isolating, she described her dose as “the best thing that’s ever happened”. It was welcome not only to her, and to her family, but to strangers across the land. In the gloom of winter, therollout of the immunisation programme is a rare glimmer of light.Though this year may seem to have stretched on for an eternity, it has beenonly months from sequencing the virus to deploying an approved vaccine. That is a truly astonishing achievement: a testament to the work of scientists and others around the world. Many more candidates are close behind it. Russia has alreadybegun to deliver its Sputnik V vaccine. China hasvaccinatedmore thana million people with the Sinopharm vaccine, still in its testing phase.Continue reading...
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