(ITV News) 8th December 2020
First man vaccinated is named William Shakespeare90-year-old Margaret Keenan, who is from Enniskillen in Northern Ireland and lives in Coventry, is the first person in the UK to be given the Covid-19 vaccine.
The jab, made by Pfizer and BioNTech, is being rolled out across hospital hubs around the UK.
The first vaccinations are being given to care home staff and residents, NHS frontline workers and people aged 80 and over.
Patients will have to receive a second jab in three weeks' time but the retired jeweller - who turns 91 next week - has called the vaccine "the best early birthday present" she could wish for.
(Daily Mail) 8th December 2020
His name, and appropriate home county, raised wry smiles on an otherwise landmark day in the history of medicine as Britain's vaccination programme got underway. Social media lit up with humorous Bard-related references (right), with one quipping it was the 'taming of the flu'. The in-patient at University Coventry Hospital's frailty ward, known as Bill, (left) himself said: 'I need to say, the staff at this hospital are wonderful.' On so-called V-Day, hailed as the moment the UK turns the tide on the pandemic, the first vaccines were administered by nurses at the hospital.