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ITV News published this video item, entitled “Queen urges people to get Covid vaccine | ITV News” – below is their description.
The Queen has made an unusually direct intervention in the nationwide drive to vaccinate the adult population.
She has urged people who are reluctant to have the Covid-19 vaccine to think of others “rather than themselves”.
It’s significant move from the Queen who, at age 94, had the vaccine herself in January.
She said it “didn’t hurt at all”.
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