Covid-19: Vaccines a lifeline for housebound people
By Marie-Louise Connolly
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media captionMore than 2,800 people who are clinically housebound have received their first Covid jab
Delivering Covid-19 vaccines to housebound patients is like a light at the end of a very dark tunnel , a community nurse has said.
Gillian Quinn works at Bangor Health Centre which is responsible for delivering vaccines to people s homes in the South Eastern Health Trust.
So far over 2,800 people in Northern Ireland who are clinically housebound have received their first Covid jab.
Vaccinating that cohort of patients began on 6 February.
They have been receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
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