Miss England Dr Bhasha Mukherjee gets COVID-19 jab, endorses safety
The 25-year-old beauty queen and a medical professional has been working on the COVID frontlines at Pilgrim Hospital in Lincolnshire.
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Bhasha Mukherjee was born in India and her family relocated to the UK when she was nine. (Photo | Bhasha Mukherjee Instagram) By PTI
LONDON: First Indian-origin Miss England and frontline National Health Service (NHS) doctor Bhasha Mukherjee has received her first of the two COVID-19 jabs and endorsed the safety of the vaccines being rolled out among those most at risk from coronavirus.
The 25-year-old beauty queen and a medical professional has been working on the COVID frontlines at Pilgrim Hospital in Lincolnshire and Royal Derby Hospital in eastern England ever since she flew back from a humanitarian tour of India at the peak of the pandemic in April 2020.
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