US begins distribution of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine

A truck loaded with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine leaves the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant (Morry Gash/AP)

The first lorries carrying a Covid-19 vaccine for widespread use in the US have pulled out of a Michigan manufacturing facility.

The vaccines that are critical to stopping the nation’s coronavirus outbreak are destined to reach states a day later.