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8.04am GMT

With that, we'll close the blog for today. Thanks for reading, and thanks to Amy Remeikis for helming it today. She'll be back tomorrow morning.

Here's what happened on this Tuesday 8 December:

7.37am GMT

In the UK, Margaret Keenan, a 90-year old grandmother from Coventry, has become the first person to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.

Australia has currently secured enough doses of the vaccine for 5 million people.

Congratulations to Margaret Keenan on her pub quiz question immortality.

Related: Coventry woman, 90, first patient to receive Covid vaccine in NHS campaign