At the age of 82, Brian Pinker, 82, has become the first person in Britain to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. A retired maintenance manager, he got the jab from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford's Churchill Hospital. More than half a million doses of the vaccine are ready for use this week and many of them are destined to protect, in the first instance, old men and women over the age of 80 with serious underlying health problems with the healthy not too far behind in the queue.
Brian, who has been having dialysis for kidney disease at the Churchill Hospital for a number of years, said he was
"really proud" the vaccine was developed in Oxford and
"the nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year".Chief Nurse Ms Foster, who administered the first dose, told the BBC it was a "huge privilege", saying: "Every single patient that we have vaccinated over the last couple of weeks have got their own personal stories to the difference it's going to make, so it is no different this morning".
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Following on behind Brian came father-of-three, 88 year old, Trevor Cowlett.
The statistics reveal why old men and women in Britain can let out a qualified sigh of relief, as they look forward to following in Brian and Trevor's footsteps :
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