A newsreader has been left red-faced after she announced the death of William Shakespeare 405 years late. Argentinian presenter Noelia Novillo confused the death of Shakespeare the writer with that of an 81-year-old from Coventry who was the first person in Britain to receive the Covid jab last year. Reporting on the pensioner’s death, which was not linked to the vaccination, she said: “As we all know, he’s one of the most important writers in the English language - for me the master.”
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