London — The UK on Monday gave the first shots of a Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca  and the University of Oxford, in a race against a faster-spreading coronavirus variant that’s prompted renew lockdowns across much of the country.

The first injection was administered to an 82-year-old kidney dialysis patient at Oxford University Hospital on Monday morning...

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