Listen | The Daily News Wrap Wednesday 9 December
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Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother from Britain, has become the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine outside of a trial following its rapid clinical approval.
Keenan received the jab at her local hospital in Coventry, central England, on Tuesday morning, a week before she turns 91.
It was the first of 800 000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine that will be dispensed in the coming weeks, the BBC reported.
Meanwhile, two men who formed a right-wing terrorist cell have been put behind bars this week, more than a year after they were arrested for planning ‘extremist activities’.
The Crusaders group, who plotted to overthrow the government of South Africa through a series of strategic attacks, were rumbled by the Hawks 13 months ago.
Eric Abrahams and Errol Abrahams – both in their fifties – had targeted key military and police locations.
Their plan also involved a desire to kill South Africa’s black citizens by ‘blowing-up’ informal settlements, making a diabolical statement about everything Crusaders were ready to stand for.