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"This is a monumental day" - Vaccine rollout underway in Northern Ireland

A nurse at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital has become the first person on the island of Irelan...

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17.41 8 Dec 2020


"This is a monumental day" - Vaccine rollout underway in Northern Ireland


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17.41 8 Dec 2020


A nurse at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital has become the first person on the island of Ireland to receive a Covid-19 vaccine.

28-year-old Sister Joanna Sloan, was given the vaccine,  just after 8am this morning.

The nurse from Dundrum in Co Down, who has a five-year-old daughter, is sister in charge of Covid-19 vaccination for the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.

But has the rollout of the vaccination been broadly welcomed? Our reporter Barry Whyte has been finding out in Belfast.....


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