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Elmhurst Hospital became the first public city hospital to administer the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday — nine months after the Queens facility endured the stunning loss of 13 coronavirus patients in a 24-hour period.

A roar of applause broke out as two of Elmhurst’s front-line workers — William Kelly, who works in the Environmental Services Department, and Veronica “Ronny” Delgado, a lead physician’s assistant in the Emergency Department — received the first of the two-shot dose.

“I hope everybody in the whole world takes the shot so we can all get back together,” said Kelly.

Delgado, 55, whose shot was delivered by city Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi, said she hopes everyone can get vaccinated quickly.

“My message to non-health care providers — you have to do your own research and everyone has to make their own decisions,” she added, “but not to be afraid of a vaccine and not to get your information off of Facebook.”

The new vaccine against the coronavirus was delivered to five hospitals on Monday and another 37 hospitals on Tuesday, including all 11 NYC Health + Hospital facilities, like Elmhurst Hospital.

More than 1,600 front-line workers across the city have received their first dose so far.

H+H CEO Dr. Mitch Katz said it would take roughly three weeks to vaccinate all of Elmhurst’s hospital staff.

“How great that now we can be here to make the pain go away, to be able to protect the heroes of Elmhurst,” Katz said.

In March, the height of the pandemic in New York City, 13 patients died of COVID-19 in a 24-hour span at Elmhurst, as the 545-bed hospital was operating above capacity and running out of supplies.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was on hand for the hospital’s first jabs, called Elmhurst a “heroic place.”

“One of the toughest battles anywhere in the United States of America against the coronavirus happened right here, but Elmhurst held,” he said. “We’re celebrating such an important moment here, the first-ever vaccination at a New York City public hospital, and there’s no more fitting place than here.”

Elmhurst will dole out inoculations based on departments most immediately connected to COVID care first, and then to all other workers on a staggered schedule in case of potential side effects.

H+H has hired a squad of 62 nurses to administer the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, which was approved for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration late last week.

COVID-19 infections are continuing to surge in New York City, with 2,785 new cases and 195 new hospitalizations recorded and a seven-day positivity rate of 5.71 percent, according to the most recent data.