Covid jabs saved 20m lives in first year

Overall 19.8 million deaths were prevented in the first year after vaccines were introduced, the new research suggests. Picture: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Around 20 million lives around the world were saved thanks to the Covid-19 jabs in the first year of the vaccine programme, according to new estimates.

The first-ever Covid-19 jab outside a clinical trial was administered on December 8, 2020, to Northern Ireland grandmother Maggie Keenan.