Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip get COVID-19 vaccine shot

Queen Elizabeth II, and her husband, Prince Philip, have been immunized with a COVID-19 vaccine, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.

The royal couple took their shots on Saturday at Windsor Castle, where they have been dividing since the beginning of the pandemic.

The Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, comes in the high-risk age group being prioritized for vaccination by the UK government.

The Queen "decided that she would let this to known to the people that she has had the jab of COVID-19 vaccine," the palace declaration said.

Royal officials announced they took the rare step of talking about the monarch's health in order to prevent errors and further speculation. A doctor administered the vaccines from the Royal Household. It is not yet known which company's vaccine the couple received.

On December 8, Britain became the first nation in the world to initiate a mass vaccination drive against the coronavirus.

The UK government stated it aims to deliver the first vaccine doses to some 15 million people in the top priority organizations by the middle of February.

That included everyone over age 70, as well as frontline health care workers, care home homeowners and any person whose health makes them specifically vulnerable to the coronavirus.

So far, some 1.5 million people in the UK have been received the first dose of a vaccine.

The British monarch made her first public display throughout a royal residence in October, performing adjacent Prince William at UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory to authorized open its new Energetics Analysis Centre.

Prince Charles- eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II had also tested positive of coronavirus in March 2019 and self-isolated himself at his Scottish residence Birkhall with mild symptoms.

It was announced in November that his son Prince William, 38, also testes positive of coronavirus in April only weeks later his father but kept his diagnosis a secret for six months to avoid scaring the public.