We finally have protection from this terrible virus - Covid-19 vaccination starts in Laois nursing home
Reporter:
15 Jan 2021
Sylvia Mathews, 102, from Portarlington, the first person in a Laois nursing home to get the Covid-19 vaccine. );
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There is huge relief amongst the residents and staff of a HSE Laois nursing home with the start of Covid-19 vaccinations this week.
Sylvia Mathews, a 102-year-old woman from Portarlington, was the first person in a Laois nursing home to be vaccinated against COVID-19 a week after the staff at Portlaoise hospital received the first vaccines delivered in the county.
Sylvia’s vaccine was the first Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to be administered by vaccinators at the HSE St Vincent s Community Nursing Unit in Mountmellick on Thursday, January 14.