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Mar 17, 2021 3:07 PM
While many have the day off, the administration of the Covid-19 vaccine continued today at the Waterford Primary Care Centre.
GPs and the team members of the Keogh Practice, which is located in the building, were onsite since 7am this morning busily preparing doses for hundreds of patients aged 75 and over. Administration of the first Covid Vaccine to be delivered on St. Patrick’s Day began at 9am.
Speaking amid much activity at the HSE’s South East Community Healthcare Primary Care Centre in John’s Hill, Waterford, Dr. Deirdre Plant of the Keogh Practice said:
Waterford great-grandmother Margaret Power has become one of the first people over the age of 85 in Ireland to receive the Covid jab in the community.
The 93-year-old received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine from her local GP shortly before 9am on Tuesday morning at the Waterford Primary Care Centre.
The rollout of the national vaccination programme for the over-85s got underway at some GP practices on Tuesday morning.
Stocks of vaccine were delivered to some GP practices on Monday but the first doses were being administered from Tuesday onwards.
Mrs Power told the PA news agency: “So far so good I don’t feel any effects yet. It’s grand to have it over me.
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