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‘Fantastic moment’: Filipino nurse injects historic COVID-19 vaccine to British grandma

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/12/08/pinoy-nurse-vaccine.jpg"/><figcaption>Pinoy nurse May Parsons injected the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the 90-year-old British grandmother, the first in the world who received the vaccine outside clinical trials. <em>Screenshot from Reuters video</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA <strong>(UPDATED) </strong>— The British ambassador to Manila on Tuesday lauded a Pinoy nurse after administering Pfizer-BioNTech&#x27;s COVID-19 vaccine to the first person in the world who received it outside clinical trials. </p><p>In a tweet, Ambassador Daniel Pruce said it was great news that Pinoy nurse May Parsons injected the vaccine to the 90-year-old British grandmother. </p><p>The ambassador also thanked the Filipino medical frontliners in the United Kingdom who made an “enormous contribution” to the country’s National Health Service (NHS). </p><p>“A fantastic moment! And great to see that the vaccine is administered by Nurse May Parsons from the Philippines - one of the many thousands of Filipino healthcare workers making such an enormous contribution to the #NHS,” Pruce said. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">A fantastic moment! And great to see that the vaccine is administered by Nurse May Parsons from the Philippines - one of the many thousands of Filipino healthcare workers making such an enormous contribution to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NHS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NHS</a> <a href="https://t.co/t1T5Wy8IzO">https://t.co/t1T5Wy8IzO</a></p>— Daniel Pruce 🇬🇧 (@DanielPruce) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanielPruce/status/1336209467629821952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2020</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>In a separate tweet, British personality Piers Morgan also praised Parsons, who he said has been working for the NHS for some 24 years.</p><p>“How wonderful that this historic global moment happened in the UK, at University Hospital, Coventry,” Morgan said. </p><p>Britain was the first country to begin mass inoculations on Tuesday with a shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">BREAKING: Margaret Keenan, 90, becomes first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, from Filipino nurse May Parsons who has worked in the NHS for 24yrs.<br/>How wonderful that this historic global moment happened in the UK, at University Hospital, Coventry. 👏👏 <a href="https://t.co/kOag8uROy1">pic.twitter.com/kOag8uROy1</a></p>— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1336207984897232897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2020</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>In an interview with “Good Morning Britain”, Parsons, a British-Filipino, said she was happy to tell the world that Pinoys could make a difference. </p><p>“I’m really glad to be telling all the Filipinos in the country and in the world that we can make a difference,&quot; she said. </p><p>She also described the COVID-19 vaccination in the UK as a &quot;historical event&quot; for Filipinos globally, who are proud of the care they provide in the medical sector in the middle of the pandemic. </p><p>“[Filipinos are] making sure that we are proud of what we have achieved and the care that we give. I’m very proud to say to everyone that I&#x27;m a British-Filipino today, making history,” the nurse added.</p><p>She clarified she was a matron who has worked at the NHS Trust in the University Hospital Coventry for 17 years. </p><p>The Coventry is a large NHS hospital situated in Walsgrave, Sowe area of Coventry on West Midlands, England.</p><p>There are some 18,000 Filipinos working for UK&#x27;s NHS, making it the second highest number of foreign worker in the health care service. </p><p>British health minister Matt Hancock, meanwhile, said he hoped life would get back to normal beginning spring of next year, following the roll-out of a vaccine against coronavirus.</p><p>&quot;Because we&#x27;ve been able to get this vaccination program running sooner than anywhere else in the world, we will be able to bring that date forward a bit. I have great hopes for summer 2021 and I hope we can lift restrictions from the spring,&quot; Hancock told the BBC.</p><div><strong>— with a report from Reuters and Rose Eclarinal, ABS-CBN News</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yf3Ong5cW14?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>The British ambassador to Manila on Tuesday lauded a Pinoy nurse after administering Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine to the first person in the world who received it outside clinical trials. <br /> </p>

The British ambassador to Manila on Tuesday lauded a Pinoy nurse after administering Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine to the first person in the world who received it outside clinical trials.