Covid-19 vaccine roll-out reaches Grantham care home
The Pfizer vaccine was used on staff and residents
Jack Lacey-Hatton
A number of residents now have been vaccinated against coronavirus (Image: Order of St Johns Care Trust)
A care home in Grantham has seen both residents and staff start to receive coronavirus vaccines as the roll-out in the community gathers pace.
The Apple Trees home on Arlington Gardens, run by The Orders of St John Care Trust, has seen vaccinations to kick off the new year.
Dorothy, a resident who celebrated her 96th birthday on New Year's Eve, was one of the first from Apple Trees to have the jab.
She said that the "vaccine didn't hurt at all".
Dorothy, 96, receives the vaccine at Apple Trees Care Home (Image: Order of St Johns Trust)
It comes after a second vaccine was used for the first time in the UK earlier this week on Monday, January 4.
The Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine has been approved and can be stored at a more normal temperature, unlike the Pfizer job which requires storage at -70c.
On Monday, 4 January, 82-year-old Brian Pinker became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford jab at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.
It is not just the residents being protected, with staff at Apple Trees also receiving the jab in the last week.
Staff member at Apple Trees, Hayley, receives the vaccination (Image: Order of St Johns Care Trust)
The Orders of St John Trust (OSJT) has homes close to Lincoln, as well as facilities in Market Rasen, Boston, Spalding, and Gainsborough.
Previously, in the very first week the Pfizer jab was utilised the trust managed to get 36 staff members from Beckside care home in Lincoln vaccinated at Lincoln County Hospital.
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It has been claimed the aim is to have 224,000 care home patients by end of this month, across the country.
This is on the back of the news that both NHS trusts in Lincolnshire now vaccinating on-site at their respective hospitals.