Nurse Parsons (right) administers the Pfizer/BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine to Keenan at University Hospital in Coventry, central England. — AFP photo
COVENTRY, United Kingdom: A 90-year-old British grandmother became the first person in a Western country to receive an approved coronavirus vaccine, as Britain rolled out Pfizer-BioNTech’s drug in the biggest inoculation drive in its history.
Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week, said it was “the best early birthday present” and 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.”
Keenan received the jab in front of cameras at a hospital in the central English city of Coventry, followed by an elderly man called William Shakespeare.
The jab was administered by May Parsons, a nurse originally from the Philippines who has worked for Britain’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) for 23 years.
“I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against Covid-19,” said Keenan, a former jewellery shop worker who has two children and four grandchildren.
The over-80s, care home workers and at-risk frontline health and social care staff are first in line to get the jab, on what has been dubbed “V-Day”. A second jab is required in 21 days. — AFP
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