TOWIE’s Bobby Norris gets training to administer the Covid vaccine

‘I wanted to do whatever I could to help others’: TOWIE’s Bobby Norris gets training to administer the Covid vaccine and will help the NHS with rollout

TOWIE’s Bobby Norris has become a volunteer NHS worker and has been trained up to inject the Covid-19 vaccine into patients during the rollout.

The reality star, 34, who suffered from Covid at the turn of the year and still was having symptoms three weeks after, trained up with St John Ambulance and has now completed his training as a Covid-19 Volunteer Vaccinator.

Taking to Instagram, he proudly told fans: ‘Today I completed my training as a COVID-19 Volunteer Vaccinator. 

Proud: TOWIE’s Bobby Norris has become a volunteer NHS worker and has been trained up to inject the Covid-19 vaccine into patients during the roll-out

‘This pandemic has affected us all in one way or another and after contracting the virus myself over Christmas and finding out first hand just how awful it really is, I decided that once I was better I wanted to do whatever I could to help others.’

‘I’m really looking forward to getting out there and doing my part in supporting the NHS in the rollout of the vaccine.’

Bobby took his training at Stanstead airport Radisson Blu hotel and proudly held up his certificate to show he’d passed the course.

During his training Bobby learned how to inject the vaccine and practised injections using a silicon sponge.

Training: The reality star, 34, trained up with St John Ambulance and has now completed his training as a Covid-19 Volunteer Vaccinator

Training: The reality star, 34, trained up with St John Ambulance and has now completed his training as a Covid-19 Volunteer Vaccinator

Bobby wrote: 'I'm really looking forward to getting out there and doing my part in supporting the NHS in the rollout of the vaccine'

Bobby wrote: ‘I’m really looking forward to getting out there and doing my part in supporting the NHS in the rollout of the vaccine’

Several of Bobby’s TOWIE and celebrity pals congratulated Bobby on his certificate including Georgia Kousoulou who wrote: ‘Yes Bobby! This is amazing ❤️’

Lizzie Cundy wrote: ‘Well done darling !! You are amazing,’ while Chloe Meadows said: ‘Aww yay same as my mummy!’

It comes after Bobby previously told how he still had coronavirus symptoms three weeks after testing positive for the virus.

Speaking on FUBAR Radio’s Access All Areas, he said: ‘I’ve honestly never felt so rough in my life. I think some days I was sleeping like twelve, fourteen hours. 

Course: During his training Bobby learned how to inject the vaccine and practised injections using a silicon sponge

Course: During his training Bobby learned how to inject the vaccine and practised injections using a silicon sponge

Post: Bobby shared a snap of his volunteering uniform after qualifying as a vaccinator

Post: Bobby shared a snap of his volunteering uniform after qualifying as a vaccinator 

Well done: Several of Bobby's TOWIE and celebrity pals congratulated Bobby on his certificate including Georgia Kousoulou who wrote: 'Yes Bobby! This is amazing ❤️'

Well done: Several of Bobby’s TOWIE and celebrity pals congratulated Bobby on his certificate including Georgia Kousoulou who wrote: ‘Yes Bobby! This is amazing ❤️’

‘But the only good thing about that is that you don’t feel rough when you are asleep. So, I kind of just dealt with it, like I said.’ 

Bobby told his Instagram followers on December 22 he was feeling awful after testing positive, but was still feeling the effects three weeks later. 

He said: ‘I still can’t smell or taste. The headaches were horrendous. Thankfully, I don’t generally suffer from migraines, but I feel so sorry for people that do because I’ve never known, like literally just the throbbing and the drilling headache.

‘And there’s kind of days when, I think by about day five, my breathing started to get quite bad.’

Bobby went on to encourage listeners to ‘do their bit’ because there is light at the end of the tunnel, in reference to the vaccine which is currently being rolled out. 

Struggles: Bobby previously revealed he was still struggling with Covid symptoms three weeks after he first tested positive for the virus

Struggles: Bobby previously revealed he was still struggling with Covid symptoms three weeks after he first tested positive for the virus