{"id":120161,"date":"2021-04-07T09:31:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T09:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=120161"},"modified":"2021-04-07T09:31:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T09:31:05","slug":"first-moderna-vaccine-dose-given-in-uk-as-unpaid-carer-24-gets-coronavirus-jab-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/first-moderna-vaccine-dose-given-in-uk-as-unpaid-carer-24-gets-coronavirus-jab-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"First Moderna vaccine dose given in UK as unpaid carer, 24, gets coronavirus jab in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

AN UNPAID carer has been the first in the UK to receive the Moderna Covid vaccine in Wales.<\/p>\n

Elle Taylor, 24, from Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, said she was "very excited and happy" to get her first dose of the American made vaccine.<\/p>\n

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Staff nurse Laura French administered that jab at West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen.<\/p>\n

Elle, who works at a further education college in Llanelli, said: "I\u2019m an unpaid carer for my grandmother so it is very important to me that I get it, so I can care for her properly and safely.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandmother has had her first dose and she is going for her second dose on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elle said she only found out on Tuesday evening that she was to be the first Briton to receive the Moderna jab in the UK.<\/p>\n

She had not heard of the Moderna vaccine – the third to be approved in the UK – until she was told she was receiving it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great, the nurses were lovely and it didn\u2019t hurt,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Elle said she was aware of concerns about patients receiving the Oxford\/AstraZeneca vaccine developing blood clots.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had heard but it doesn\u2019t concern me too much, and I guess if it happens, it happens and I am in the right care if I need it, and I feel happy that I\u2019ve tried the new one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked how she felt to be a trailblazer for millions of other people, Elle said: \u201cI feel thrilled and really happy and honoured, and I just hope it goes well for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

The start of the rollout of the Moderna vaccine today comes weeks ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n

Doses of the jab will be rolled out in West Wales according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock to hand a much needed boost to the nation\u2019s sluggish deployment over the Easter weekend.<\/p>\n

The rollout will begin in\u00a0England\u00a0\u201cas soon as possible this month\u201d, a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Scotland\u2019s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the first batch of\u00a0Moderna\u00a0vaccines had arrived in the country on Monday and will be delivered over the coming months.<\/p>\n

It has not been confirmed when the rollout of\u00a0Moderna\u00a0will begin in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n


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Britain has secured 17 million doses, which were given the green-light buy medicines regulator\u00a0the MHRA back in January.<\/p>\n

Trials showed the jab was 95 per cent effective against Covid disease. <\/p>\n

The US jab was always expected in the "spring" but yesterday Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi played down their imminent arrival.<\/p>\n

He had said he expected doses to go into arms "around the third week of April", with "more volume" expected by May.<\/p>\n

Ministers have warned that April will see a slow down of the inoculation against the dead virus.<\/p>\n

But the 500,000 batch of Moderna will help keep the numbers ticking over until more stocks of AstraZeneca and Pfizer arrive.<\/p>\n

A benefit of the jab is that it can be stored at standard medicine fridge temperatures, unlike the Pfizer jab which needs to be at 70C (minus 94F).<\/p>\n


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Mr Hancock said: \u201cI\u2019m delighted we can start the UK rollout of the Moderna vaccine in west Wales today.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UK government has secured vaccines on behalf of the entire nation and the vaccination programme has shown our country working together at its best.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree out of every five people across the whole United Kingdom have received at least one dose, and today we start with the third approved vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWherever you live, when you get the call, get the jab.\u201d<\/p>\n


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