British Ambassador to the Philippines Daniel Pruce announced that Filipina nurse May Parsons is the first one to administer the coronavirus vaccine in the United Kingdom.
Britain has rolled out its vaccination program for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.
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“A fantastic moment! And great to see that the vaccine is administered by Nurse May Parsons from the Philippines – one of the many thousands of Filipino healthcare workers making such an enormous contribution to the #NHS,” Pruce said.
90 year-old Margaret Keenan is the first person to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the UK.
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“I feel so privileged. It’s the best early birthday present I could wish for because I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the New Year after being on my own for most of the year,” she told NHS.
”I can’t thank May and the NHS staff enough who have looked after me tremendously, and my advice to anyone offered the vaccine is to take it — if I can have it at 90 then you can have it too!” the woman told her nurse. (TDT)
