William Shakespeare becomes second person in world to get coronavirus vaccine shot in UK

After a 90-year-old woman from Northern Ireland was the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, a man with the name William Shakespeare became the second person in the world to receive the vaccine.

“It could make a difference to our lives from now on, couldn’t it?,” Shakespeare, 81, said after being vaccinated at University Hospital Coventry, in central England.

Soon after he got vaccinated, the BBC wrote that “Shakespeare gets Covid vaccine.” Shakespeare received the shot in his left arm and wore a hospital gown and bright red socks.

May Parsons, a nurse at the hospital who administered the dose to Shakespeare, said that the injections were a first step in giving more people a sense of normality.

Earlier in the day, a 90-year-old woman Margaret Keenan from Enniskillen in Northern Ireland on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.