First Leeds person to get Covid vaccine, aged 80, ‘overwhelmed’ at having made history

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She's dedicated her more than five decades of her life working for the NHS. Sylvia Harris, 80, has now made a little piece of medical history of her own after becoming the first person in Leeds to receive the Covid vaccine. She told the YEP she was "overwhelmed" and thinks she was first in the line with her claim to being the oldest person employed by the NHS in Leeds.

Sylvia Harris first joined Leeds