First dose of Moderna vaccine given in UK as 24-year-old carer Elle Taylor gets jab - News 360 Tv
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Date: 07/04/2021

A 24-year-old carer has become the first person in the UK to receive the Moderna vaccine as it becomes the latest jab used in the country's vaccination program.

Elle Taylor, from Ammanford in Wales, who is an unpaid carer for her 82-year-old grandmother, received the vaccine this morning.

"I'm very excited and very happy," she said. "I'm 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.

"My grandmother has had her first dose and she is going for her second dose on Saturday."

Miss Taylor, who works at a further education college in Llanelli, received the Moderna jab from staff nurse Laura French at West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen.

She said she only found out on Tuesday evening that she was to be the first Briton to receive the Moderna jab in the UK. #News360Tv  

First doses of the Moderna jab are being administered at West Wales General Hospital on Wednesday, with a total of 5,000 doses having been distributed to vaccination centres across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.

Supplies of the Moderna vaccine arrived in Wales on Tuesday.

Moderna's vaccine is the third to be approved for use in the UK, and is being rolled out alongside jabs from Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford University-AstraZeneca.

The UK has purchased 17 million doses of the Moderna jab, enough for 8.5 million people, and phase three results suggest the vaccine has 100% efficacy against severe cases of coronavirus.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people to "please get your jab as soon as you are contacted".

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "I'm delighted we can start the UK rollout of the Moderna vaccine in west Wales today.

"The UK government has secured vaccines on behalf of the entire nation and the vaccination programme has shown our country working together at its best.

"Three 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. Wherever you live, when you get the call, get the jab."

Wales health minister Vaughan Gething added that the introduction of a third vaccine "significantly adds to our defences in the face of coronavirus and will help protect our most vulnerable".

24-year-old carer Elle Taylor has become the first person in the UK to receive the Moderna vaccine in a hospital in Wales.
Unpaid carer becomes the first in the UK to receive the Moderna Covid vaccine

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