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Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference December 2nd; ENGLAND: London: Westminster: Downing Street: INT Press conference part 1 of 10 Sir Simon Stevens (NHS England Chief Executive), Professor Jonathan Van-Tam (England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer) and Boris Johnson MP (Prime Minister) arriving into press conference / Boris Johnson MP (Prime Minister) statement SOT. - It is almost a year since humanity has been tormented by COVID Across the world, economic output has plummeted and a million and a half people have died And all the time we have waiting and hoping for the day when the searchlights of science would pick out our invisible enemy And give us the power to stop that enemy from making us ill – and now the scientists have done it And they have used the virus itself to perform a kind of biological jiu-jitsu, to turn the virus on itself in the form of a vaccine from an idea that was pioneered in this country by Edward Jenner in 1796 And today we can announce that the government has accepted the recommendation from the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for distribution across the United Kingdom. after months of clinical trials, involving thousands of people to ensure that the vaccine meets the strictest, internationally recognised, standards of safety, quality and effectiveness. Thanks to the fantastic work of Kate Bingham and the Vaccines Task Force, we purchased more than 350 million doses of seven different vaccine candidates, and the UK was the first country in the world to pre-order supplies of this Pfizer vaccine securing 40 million doses. Through our Winter Plan, the NHS has been preparing for the biggest programme of mass vaccination in the history of the UK. And that is going to begin next week, and in line with the advice of the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation the first phase will include...