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Irish Granny Becomes First Person Worldwide To Get COVID-19 Vaccine


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The vaccine is being rolled out in UK and Northern Ireland

A 90-year-old Irish granny has become the first person in the world to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

Margaret Keenan, who's from Enniskillen in Co. Fermanagh, got the Pfizer/BioNTech shot at a hospital in Coventry this morning.

The vaccine is being rolled out across the UK this week, after becoming the first country in the world to approve it.

Margaret described getting the jab as 'the best thing that's ever happened at the moment'.

She added "My advice to anyone offered the vaccine is to take it.

"If I can have it at 90 then you can have it too."

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The vaccine is also being rolled out in the North this morning.

A nurse in Belfast has become the first person on the island of Ireland to get it.

Sister Joanna Sloan was among a team of 800 healthcare workers to receive the shot at Belfast Royal Victoria Hospital this morning.

It comes as the government here is set to sign off on plans for a rollout of a jab, and including who will get it first.

Nursing homes, healthcare workers and over 75s will get the first access under plans going to cabinet this morning.


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