A 100-year-old woman from Pateley Bridge was among the first to receive the coronavirus vaccination at the Great Yorkshire Showground yesterday.
Amy Derrick, who has lived in the Pateley area all her life and has a large family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in and around the Nidderdale town, has had quite a year.
A large celebration for her 100th birthday on March 21 had to be cancelled due to the start of the first lockdown.
Now she has become one of the first people in the Harrogate district — and possibly the oldest so far — to have been inoculated.
Joyce Liggins, one of Amy’s three children, said the entire process, from booking a time online to navigating their way around the set-up at the showground, ran smoothly. She added:
“A very nice lady gave the injection and we then sat in another room for 15 minutes before leaving. It was well organised.”
Amy now has to wait three weeks before receiving her second Pfizer/BioNTech jab.
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