A 95-year-old woman is looking forward to hugging her family after receiving the coronavirus vaccine.
Great-great-grandmother Ethel recently had her COVID-19 vaccination at Liverpool’s Aintree University Hospital.
She has two sons, three grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren, with the youngest born in August.
Ethel is one of the 138,000 people in the UK to have received the jab so far.
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To date, 800,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine are known to be in the country, which is enough for 400,000 people as two doses are required for each person.
Overall, the UK has ordered 40 million doses - enough to vaccinate 20 million people.
People require two doses of the Pfizer jab 21 days apart for the vaccine to be fully effective - and Ethel is looking forward to what this will mean for her.
She said: "The hardest thing has been not being able to give my family members a big hug.
"James, my great great grandson, was born five weeks early on the August 30, and I haven’t been able to give him a hug.
"It’s been really difficult not being able to meet him properly due to the difficult times we are currently in."
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he hopes several million people can be vaccinated before Christmas.
Of the latest data, he said: "This is just the start and we will steadily expand our vaccination programme - ultimately helping everyone get back to normal life."
Formal statistics will be published every week from next week to give a running total of how many people have been immunised.
The rate of vaccinations is expected to rise as more doses become available and the programme continues to expand.
