Hundreds of hospital staff in Harrogate have had their first doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
On Monday, Harrogate District Hospital began offering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to its staff after the first batch was delivered.
Seven hundred staff have been booked in this week to be vaccinated and 266 had received the jab after the first two days of the programme.
A total of 820 staff from high risk categories were invited to be inoculated first.
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“It was a necessity to have this vaccination because I have two auto-immune conditions and my husband is classed as vulnerable because he has an auto-immune condition.“I’ve got elderly parents and a young grandson. I’ve had this to protect myself, my family and the patients we deal with.”
It comes as public health officials in North Yorkshire said they expected the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine to arrive in the county by the end of the week.
It means more care home residents will be able to access the vaccine as it is easier to transport.
The government has ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine, however just 530,000 were cleared for use earlier this week.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday the NHS would begin to publish daily figures on the number of vaccinations from next week.