Local GPs invited patients in the priority group over the age of 80 to visit the cathedral and take their first vaccine doses.
More than 3.23 million people received a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine in the UK by Saturday, according to the news agency PA Media.
“It was absolutely wonderful to get into this amazing building and have this jab,” Godwin said in an interview with the PA Media News Agency. “I had a lot of jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war I was sent to Egypt and I had some jabs that knocked me over for a week.
“This one, the doctor told me ‘Well, it’s done’ and I thought he did not start. So it is not difficult at all and no pain,” he added.
Godwin said World War II was “completely different” from the pandemic “because it divided people.”
“You practically see each other, but I have a very large family. I now have 12 great-grandchildren from four months to 23 years. I do not see them and they are all growing up,” he explained.
The cathedral’s organist, John Challenger, said in a tweet that he would “play the trade of Largo and much more organ music” as the cathedral becomes a vaccination center.
“This is the place where we pray day after day for the healing of the city, for the healing of the nation. To be able to come here today to receive these life-saving vaccinations, I am just very happy that we can play our part “In this,” said Salisbury Dean Dean Nicholas Papadopulos to CNN’s affiliated ITV News.
More than 3.3 million cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the UK, and the country has the highest death toll in Europe, with more than 87,000 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.