‘It’s little short of miraculous’

Retired Advice NI debt adviser Adam Harbinson believes the vaccine “is little short of miraculous”.

Apart from concerns for his family, the 73 year-old misses the freedom of visiting the theatre and cinema as well as dining out.

He welcomed the news of the vaccine saying: “The best that most of us expected was that we would have a vaccine in a couple of years. “And now the first vaccine is being rolled out across the UK.

“Perhaps the main benefit for me and society, apart from the obvious benefit of protecting us from the dreaded disease, is that it infuses a sense of hope into an otherwise hopeless environment.”