Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine wins UK authorization -- first in the West
December 02, 2020 at 02:41 AM EST
The U.K. became the first Western nation to grant emergency-use authorization for a Covid-19 vaccine, clearing a shot developed by Pfizer Inc. of the U.S. and BioNTech SE of Germany to be distributed in limited numbers within days.