Sunderland will receive around 6,000 Covid-19 jabs next week as the vaccine arrives in the city.
The first batch of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccines will be delivered in the city from Tuesday, December 15.
Jabs were first given in the North East on Tuesday, December 8 as the mass vaccination programme started across Britain.
Race relations campaigner Dr Hari Shukla, 87, was the first person in the region to receive it at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary. He described it as his "duty".
The vaccine is widely viewed as the best hope of ending the pandemic. The UK Government has ordered enough jabs for the whole of Britain, although Pfizer's is the only one to be approved to date by regulators.
Grindon Lane Primary Care Centre has reportedly been chosen as the first Sunderland venue for the vaccine scheme, which in the North East, is being managed by the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust.
The first pack of vaccines in Sunderland will be divided into 975 doses, before more arrive the next day. In total, around 6,000 are expected to be delivered by the end of next week.
Frontline NHS staff and elderly care home staff will be among the first to receive the vaccine, which ultimately, will be made available to almost every Brit aged over 16.
A second vaccine is needed 21 days after the first in order for it to work and offer protection against the virus, which to date has already claimed over 63,000 British lives.
