Vaccine 'a game-changer' as nurse from Co Down receives first Covid jab in the North

Sister Joanna Sloan (left) becomes the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the first of two Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine jabs, at the Royal Victoria Hospital, in Belfast. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

The first person to receive the vaccine in Northern Ireland was a 28-year-old nurse from Dundrum in Co Down.

Joanna Sloan is a sister in charge of Covid vaccination for the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland’s largest.