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Phillip Schofield, 58, receives Covid vaccine and thanks NHS staff for 'painless jab'

Phillip Schofield has received his Covid jab.

The This Morning star, who hosts the daytime favourite with Holly Willoughby, shared a snap of the moment as a masked up NHS worker administered his Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

Phillip smiled behind his mask as he took the opportunity to thank NHS workers.

"All painlessly jabbed up," he wrote, "that couldn't have been any easier, more efficient or friendlier, thank you to Lisa and the team.".

Sharing the snap to his Instagram Stories, Phillip followed it with a look at a Covid-19 information leaflet and vaccine card.

The recommended dosage for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is two doses at an interval of eight to 12 weeks, meaning Phillip will need a second injection down the line.

Phil received the first of his two jabs (schofe/Instagram)

This comes after Phil's ITV colleague Piers Morgan received his jab, praising the "amazingly efficient" NHS.

"So here I am," Piers says in a video, "I'm about to have my AstraZeneca jab. I'm that old!

"The doctor here is going to be administering it to me."

Piers had his jab (Twitter)

He added: "I have to say it's been an amazingly efficient operation...we were told exactly where to go, you treated me like the idiot I am, nothing was left to chance."

21.3 million across the UK have received their first dose of the vaccine, and deaths have plummeted by 41% in just a week.

"You can really see the effects of the vaccine in the number of deaths," Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.

Matt Hancock updated the country on vaccine statistics (Getty Images)

"That link from cases to hospitalisations and then deaths that had been unbreakable before the vaccine is now breaking.

"The vaccine is protecting the NHS and saving lives, right across the country."

More than one million people have received both doses.

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