US Vice-President Mike Pence receives coronavirus vaccination live on TV

Vice President Mike Pence received a Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine shot live on TV (Andrew Harnik)

US Vice-President Mike Pence has received his first coronavirus jab live on TV alongside his wife Karen and Surgeon General Jerome Adams.

The trio were vaccinated on Friday morning in an office suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building from three medical technicians from Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre.