US President-elect, Joe Biden has been filmed receiving his first dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine.
Mr Biden’s vaccination came one week after the first doses of the vaccine were given to US health care workers, and days after the country’s US Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorisation for a second coronavirus vaccine.
Incoming first lady, Jill Biden has also reportedly received the vaccine.
The Pfizer vaccine requires two doses administered several weeks apart in order to reach 95% efficacy.
Biden’s transition spokesperson Jen Psaki told CNN that Vice President-elect, Kamala Harris and her husband would receive their vaccinations next week.
Outgoing President, Donald Trump has not yet received the vaccine yet and says he won’t have the jab until it is recommended by the White House medical team, a White House official said last week.
Part of Mr Biden’s plan to combat the pandemic includes distributing 100 million vaccine shots, enough to cover 50 million people, in his initial 100 days in office.
The coronavirus pandemic had killed more than 318,000 Americans so far.
