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The NHS nurse who delivered the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine has warned that 'we are getting complacent' and has called on families not to forget how lifesaving vaccines can be. May Parsons has described the ‘heartbreaking’ conversations that take place with people on their death beds who regret missing jabs for flu and Covid.

Five years ago today, May administered the first vaccine outside of clinical trials to Maggie Keenan. Back then, at the height of the pandemic, vaccines saved the country from perpetual lockdowns and there was a clamour for everyone to get one.

Since then, vaccine uptake for Covid-19 and flu has plummeted and May is speaking out to urge people not to get “complacent” with their lives. It comes as Britain is braced for its worst flu season on

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