Martin Kenyon, 91, has made waves  on social media after giving an interview to CNN about receiving his first dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. 

“I hope I’m not going to get the bloody bug now,” he told CNN’s Cyril Vanier. 

The clip of the nonagenarian has now been viewed more than 3 million times since it was posted online this afternoon. 

Hear what Mr Kenyon has to say: 

Health secretary Matt Hancock has thanked NHS pharmacists for their work rolling out the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. 

In a tweet posted on Tuesday evening, Mr Hancock also gave a shout out to Milton Keynes University Hospital for its progress on the first day of the mass vaccine programme. 

Lord Bethell, minister for innovation at the Department of Health, has celebrated “V Day” in this tweet:

The coronavirus vaccine rollout started in the UK today.

Here’s a few images of some of the first patients to receive the much-awaited jab:

Britons may still need to wear masks for another year, the government’s chief scientific adviser has said, on the day the UK delivered its first vaccinations against coronavirus. 

“It is important we all stick to the rules in the meantime – the rules are what’s keeping the virus down,” Sir Patrick Vallance told Sky News.

He said: “It may be that next winter even with vaccination we need measures like masks in place – we don’t know yet how good all the vaccines are going to be at preventing the transmission of the virus.”

Sir Patrick also said: “It’s going to take quite a long time to make sure everybody in the at-risk groups and all of the groups that are difficult to reach get vaccinated as appropriate.”

Additional reporting by Press Association

President-elect Joe Biden has said he will sign a federal mask mandate on day one of his administration, as he lays out his 100-day plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic, Danielle Zoellner reports.

“I’m absolutely convinced that in 100 days we can change the course of the disease and change life in America for the better,” Mr Biden said on Tuesday when introducing key health advisors in his incoming administration

“My first 100 days, I’m going to ask for a masking plan. Everyone for the first 100 days of my administration to wear a mask,” he added. 

Scotland has cancelled all exams for next year amid ongoing disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Zoe Tidman reports.

It follows a previous decision to scrap National 5 exams and delay others.

The Scottish education secretary has now said Higher and Advanced Highers will not go ahead either, amid concerns over fairness and the pandemic affecting students’ education differently. 

Sheriffs in Los Angeles County arrested 158 people at a massive house party over the weekend, summoning a helicopter and deputies from three stations in a show of force against those defying lockdown rules, Harriet Alexander reports.

The party in Palmdale, 60 miles north of downtown LA, was organised by a 17-year-old who Fox 11 said was staging numerous large gatherings around the area.

The government’s announcement of the Christmas bubble system may have led to an increase in the number of people planning to meet up over the holidays, a professor of psychology has said.

Stephen Reicher, from the University of St Andrews, told BBC Radio 4: “Before the government made its announcement on Christmas and meeting up, it was only about 12 per cent of us who were planning to meet up, now it’s gone up to about a third now.

“It’s still a minority but nonetheless it does suggest that the government announcement in itself changed people’s intentions and began to say to them, ‘Well, if the government says we can meet up, perhaps it’s safe and perhaps we should’.”

He added that there was a “different world in sight” with a vaccine available but it would not have an effect over the Christmas period.

“The vaccine has no effect on what’s going to happen over the Christmas period because you need two doses, three to four weeks apart, another week until it’s effective, so it’s a month before people are going to be protected,” Mr Reicher said.

Imperial College London’s Professor Robin Shattock has said he understands why non-scientists worry about the side effects of vaccines but warned the risks of catching coronavirus itself are far greater.

The scientist told a Royal Society of Medicine online event that it was “impossible to rule out” that someone among the many millions of people who will need to be vaccinated might experience some serious side effects.

However, he added: “But if they have that underlying issue, the risks of having a more serious consequence of Covid-19 are even higher.

“So it’s about a risk benefit ratio, no medicine is without any risk at all, but the risk of contracting Covid-19 and having a serious consequence of that is so much higher than any potential risk from a vaccine.”