How the foreign press covered Britain’s ‘V-day’

There have been some dark days for Britain over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, but thankfully today was not one of them. Tuesday 8 December has been hailed as ‘V-day’ as the UK became the first country to begin its mass vaccination programme. Tens of thousands of Brits received their injections, including Margaret Keenan, 90, the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer jab outside of a clinical trial, and William Shakespeare, 81, from Warwickshire, who was the second.

Across the world, all eyes have been on the UK today. Here’s how the foreign press covered the start of the biggest mass vaccination programme in the NHS’s history.

New York Times:

The New York Times is not typically favourable in its coverage of goings-on in Britain but it made an exception today. It said the NHS rollout of the jab was a programme with ‘little precedent in modern medicine’.