An 82-year-old man made history as the first person in the world to take the Oxford-Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine that was recently approved in the United Kingdom.
Brian Pinker, a retired maintenance manager and a dialysis patient at Oxford’s Churchill Hospital, expressed his gratitude to be the first in the country to be inoculated with the vaccine.
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“I am so pleased to be getting the COVID vaccine today and really proud that it is one that was invented in Oxford. 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.”,” said Pinker as per a tweet from the National Health Service in UK.
Chief Nursing Officer of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Sam Foster administered the first Oxford Vaccine and stated that she looks forward to administer the vaccine to more UK residents in the coming days.
“It was a real privilege to be able to deliver the first Oxford Vaccine at the Churchill Hospital here in Oxford, just a few hundred metres from where it was developed. We look forward to vaccinating many more patients and health and care staff with the Oxford vaccine in the coming weeks which will make a huge difference to people living in the communities we serve and the staff who care for them in our hospitals,” said Foster.
