Buckingham Palace has confirmed that Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, both over 90 years old, have received their COVID-19 vaccines.
“The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh have today received COVID-19 vaccinations,” the Palace said in a statement.
This, as the United Kingdom reported it had surpassed more than 3 million cases since the pandemic began more than a year ago.
The Queen is 94 years old while Philip is 99, putting them in the priority list in Britain’s vaccination program.
A source told Reuters that a household doctor at Windsor Castle.
So far, more than 1.5 million people in Britain have received virus jabs.
The country has been battling a new wave of coronavirus cases due to the new variant discovered in the United Kingdom which is more transmissible.
The has the world’s fifth-highest official death toll from COVID-19 at nearly 80,000.
