A 90 year old Irish granny has become the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Bio-N-tech Covid-19 vaccine.
Margaret Keenan, who's from Enniskillen, had the injection at University Hospital Coventry at around 6.30am this morning.
She said it was “a privilege” to be the first and expressed hope she could spend time with her family and friends in the New Year “after being on my own for most of the year.”
“My advice to anyone offered the vaccine is to take it,” she said. “If I can have it at 90 then you can have it too.”
She said the vaccine is “the best thing that has ever happened at the moment.”
“Do please go for it,” she said. “If I can do it well, so can you.”
The vaccine is being rolled out across Britain and Northern Ireland today, with the UKs Health Secretary Matt Hancock describing it as the “beginning of the end of the pandemic.”
In Dublin, Cabinet will this morning consider a plan for the rollout of the vaccine as soon as it is approved.
Nursing home residents will be top of the list.
They will be followed by frontline healthcare workers who are in contact with patients.
