ITV News published this video item, entitled “Meet Margaret Keenan the UK’s first Covid-19 vaccine patient | ITV News” – below is their description.
90-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.
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BioNTech SE (NASDAQ: BNTX) is a German biotechnology company dedicated to the development and manufacture of active immunotherapies for a patient-specific approach to the treatment of serious diseases.
Covid-19 is the official WHO name given to the novel coronavirus which broke out in late 2019 and began to spread in the early months of 2020.
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Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George’s Channel.
Geopolitically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2016, 4.8 million people live in the Republic of Ireland, and 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
The Irish climate is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and thus very moderate, and winters are milder than expected for such a northerly area, although summers are cooler than those in continental Europe. Rainfall and cloud cover are abundant.
A strong Irish culture exists, as expressed through Gaelic games, Irish music and the Irish language. The island’s culture shares many features with that of Great Britain, including the English language, and sports such as association football, rugby, horse racing, and golf.
ITV (LSE: ITV) is a broadcasting company which was formed from a merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004. It holds Channel 3 broadcasting licences in England, Wales, Southern Scotland and the Isle of Man.
Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer/BioNTechCovid-19 vaccine outside of a trial, at 06:31 GMT on 8th December 2020. The grandmother from Northern Ireland received the injection in Coventry, England – the first of 800,000 doses to be administered in the UK.
Northern Ireland is variously described as a country, province, or region, which is part of the United Kingdom. Located in the northeast of the island of Ireland, Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland.
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in New York City. In 2012, it was one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies and ranked 57 on the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.