Bard timing: Argentinian TV reports death of Shakespeare after Covid jab

Newsreader confuses Bill Shakespeare, 81, the first man to get the coronavirus vaccine' with one of the most important writers in the English language'

In what can only be described as a comedy of errors, an Argentinian TV news channel delivered a stunning, if slightly flawed, scoop on Thursday night when it reported that William Shakespeare, one of the most important writers in the English language" had died five months after receiving the Covid vaccine.

The gaffe of, well, Shakespearean proportions happened after Noelia Novillo, a newsreader on Canal 26, mixed up the Bard with William Bill" Shakespeare, an 81-year-old Warwickshire man who became the second person in the world to get the Pfizer vaccine.