Prince William persuaded those eligible to get jabs.
London, United Kingdom:
Prince William has warned of anti-vaccination messages on social media and urged those who deserve a job, following a similar claim by his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
“Social media sometimes wakes up with a lot of rumors and misinformation,” the Duke of Cambridge said in a video released by Kensington Palace on Saturday afternoon.
He showed himself and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, talking to two clinically vulnerable and deserving women about their first job soon.
In one video call, a woman named Shivali, who has type 2 diabetes, said she read a lot of social media posts that made her “a little nervous” about getting the vaccine at first, while she was now confident about getting the injection.
The prince told her: “We need to be a little bit careful about who we believe and where we get our information from, especially for those who are also clinically vulnerable, it is so important that these vaccines are to do. “
“Catherine and I are not medical experts by any means but if it is a comfort that we can fully support getting vaccines, it is very important.”
Vaccination uptake to date has been “amazing,” the prince said, and the job now is to make sure the younger generations “feel it’s very important for them to have it.”
The video came after the 94-year-old Queen on Thursday persuaded people to get vaccinated, saying she was “not hurt at all,” when she received it in January, along with Prince Philip.
She said those who were scared to get the vaccine should “think of people other than themselves.”
Her eldest son and heir, Prince Charles, 72, who received steady doses of Covid-19 last year, has also been kicked, as has his second wife, Camilla, 73.
The royal family is speaking out as health officials have expressed concerns about lower take-up among minority ethnic communities.
To date the UK has given the first vaccine dose to more than 19 million people after launching their innoculation program in December.
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