We’re all Covid vaccine converts

OMICRON continues to spread around the country, but some people are still wary about getting the Covid booster jab; others are yet to have their first two doses.

Here, three people who were hesitant about getting the vaccine tell us why they decided to roll up their sleeves and do their bit.

Kate Featherstone-Coombes, 29, from Winchester, was in two minds about getting vaccinated while pregnant with her now six-month-old baby.

“In February 2021, I was pregnant and the vaccine rollout was beginning. Even as a student midwife, I was apprehensive about my first jab. I was really torn and it was scary.

“In hospital we were seeing more and more poorly pregnant women come in with Covid, and I didn’t want that to be me.

“My partner Joss, 31, was pro-vaccine – no wonder, when we’d spent so long shielding due to him having Crohn’s disease. But it was a volunteer in the vaccination centre where I helped out who swung it for me.