Publish date: 7 January 2022
A 73-year-old patient with cancer was the first in Cheshire and Merseyside to receive a new treatment given to high-risk people.
If Sotrovimab is given quickly after Coronavirus symptoms develop it can stop people from falling seriously ill with the disease.
Phil McConnell, from Haydock, had the drug in Newton Hospital in St Helens.
He said: “Because of cancer, my immune system isn’t what it should be, so I am very pleased to be getting this treatment which will reduce my risk of needing to go to hospital and stop me worrying so much.”
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