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media captionMary Keir, 108, said she felt very lucky to have the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 vaccine
A 108-year-old woman who lived through the Spanish flu pandemic is among the first residents at a care home in Carmarthenshire to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
Mary Keir was one of 37 people at the Llandeilo site to receive their first dose of the Pfizer-Biontech jab.
She said she felt much safer and happier having done so.
Covid-19 is the second pandemic she has lived through - she was four at the onset of the 1916 Spanish Flu outbreak.
The retired nurse, from St Davids in Pembrokeshire, worked as a ward sister at Llandough Hospital in Cardiff during and after World War Two.
THE first care home residents in west Wales have received the Covid-19 vaccine today (Thursday 17 December) as part of a phased roll-out to care homes. Thirty seven residents at Awel Twyi in Llandeilo received their first dose of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, including 108-year-old Mary Kier, a former nurse and Wales’s second oldest woman. Speaking shortly after receiving her vaccine, Mary said: “I was really happy to have the vaccine today. We’ve been waiting for it to be ready. “Thank God for the people who have been able to get it for us. We’re very lucky. I now feel much safer and happier.”
The first care home residents in west Wales have received the COVID-19 vaccine today (Thursday, December 17) as part of a phased roll-out to care homes. Thirty-seven residents of Awel Twyi, in Llandeilo, received their first dose of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, including 108-year-old Mary Kier, a former nurse and Wales’ second oldest woman. Speaking shortly after receiving her vaccine, Mary said: “I was really happy to have the vaccine today. We’ve been waiting for it to be ready. “Thank God for the people who have been able to get it for us. We’re very lucky. I now feel much safer and happier.”