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A pharmacy has become the first in Wales to offer Covid jabs, as community vaccine trials begin.
Fifty people with appointments are to visit the pharmacy near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, on Friday to receive their first shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
The pilot has begun in pharmacies in Betsi Cadwaladr health board.
First Minister Mark Drakeford said community pharmacists can help with vaccinations in more than one way .
UK Government figures show 126,375 people in Wales, 4% of the population, have received their first coronavirus jab so far.
That compares with 4.1% (224,840) in Scotland, 4.9% in England (2,769,164) and 6% (114,567) in Northern Ireland.
Hundreds more pharmacies in Wales will offer the jab in the next two weeks.
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Sale leader at £9000 was this Limousin cross heifer - photographed here at LiveScot 2019 when she won the heifer championship for Stewart and Lynsey Bett A rip-roaring trade for commercial beef breeding heifers at the Alexander family’s Jalex sale not only saw prices peak at £9000, with others at £5500 and £5000 twice, additional females also had to be brought in to meet demand. The on-farm, online Jalex Select sale of 54 in-calf heifers staged last weekend just outside Belfast, averaged a colossal £3092, with a further 44 similarly aged and bred females then cashing in at £2111. Such was the demand that no fewer than 22 lots sold at £3000 or more.