First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK

According to bbc.co.uk, A 90-year-old woman has become the first person to be given a Covid jab as part of the mass vaccination programme being rolled out across the UK. Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week, said it was the “best early birthday present.”

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Well,  the Covid-19 vaccine has been injected into a patient for the first time in the UK. At 6.31am on what has been dubbed ‘V Day’ by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, early riser Margaret Keenan, known to friends and family as Maggie, was given the life-saving jab without “feeling a thing” by nurse May Parsons.

Margaret, who is from Enniskillen in Northern Ireland and lives in Coventry, will be 91 next week and said: “I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against Covid-19.

“It’s the best early birthday present I could wish for because it means I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the New Year after being on my own for most of the year.”

“As I said before, at the moment I don’t know how I feel, it’s just so strange and so wonderful, really,” Margaret said.

“This is for a good cause so I’m so pleased I had it done.” Ms Parsons said it was a “huge honour” to be the first in the country to deliver the vaccine to a patient.Speaking at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS

Trust, she said: “It’s a huge honour to be the first person in the country to deliver a Covid-19 jab to a patient, I’m just glad that I’m able to play a part in this historic day.“The last few months have been tough for all of us working in the NHS, but now it feels like there is light at the end of the tunnel.”