NY-based Kilrush Nurse Receives COVID Vaccine

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A Kilrush native nurse has spoken of how he has become one of the first cohort of people in the world to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Gerry Eustace, who is working in a hospital in Queens, New York, has told Clare FM that he has experienced no side-effects receiving after the injection last Friday.

He’ll receive a second dose in the New Year.

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The first vaccinations in Ireland will take place within a week.

Gerry had volunteered on to work on a COVID ward during the first wave of the virus .