AstraZeneca – Manx care residence vaccine rollout begins with first Oxford/AstraZeneca dose used on-island | Granada
Care residence residents throughout the Isle of Man have began to obtain their COVID-19 vaccination as the subsequent stage of the Island rollout begins.
Sally Murray, an 84-year-old on the Southlands residence in Port Erin, was the primary to obtain the vaccine amongst 33 residents and 6 workers.
She was additionally the primary particular person within the Isle of Man to obtain the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.
Is that it? Everybody who can ought to have the vaccine. This may assist not solely me however everybody else and I really feel very fortunate to be getting the primary one.
Vaccinators shall be visiting residential care houses run by the Division of Well being and Social Care and the personal sector, all through the week.
The federal government plan to have vaccinated over 200 care residence residents by the top of the week.
Well being and care workers and over 80s are receiving their jab at a vaccination hub in ward 20 at Noble’s Hospital.
Care residence residents, well being and care workers and people aged over 80 are the highest precedence teams for vaccination, as set out by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
Residents of Island nursing houses who want to be vaccinated shall be visited from 25th January in an analogous rollout.
A separate consent course of is in place for residents of care houses who lack capability to make the choice for themselves, and households are being invited to offer their views on whether or not they want their liked one to be vaccinated.
Two new vaccination hubs are set to open within the coming weeks, one in Douglas on the former Shoprite retailer in Chester Street, and the opposite at a purpose-built hub on the airport.
