Full list of mass Covid vaccination centres opening next week
The locations of seven mass vaccination centres set to open across the UK next week have now been revealed.
Pop-up sites will open at the Excel Centre in London, Robertson House in Stevenage, Epsom Racecourse, Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol, Millennium Point in Birmingham, Etihad Tennis Centre in Manchester and the Centre for Life in Newcastle, the Prime Minister’s spokesperson said.
They also noted that the centres will be run with a combination of NHS staff and volunteers.
Other facilities currently also being considered include Derby Arena, the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, Malvern’s Three Counties’ Showground in Worcestershire, Villa Park, home of Aston Villa FC, and Leicester Racecourse.
Three Morrisons supermarkets, in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford, will also host drive-through vaccinations in their car parks from Monday, and a further 47 sites have been offered.
Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur have also offered the use of their stadium as a venue to roll out the coronavirus vaccine.
It comes as the Boris Johnson revealed that around one in 10 care home residents had been vaccinated so far during the government’s rollout, along with 14% of care home staff.
On Tuesday, he confirmed that 1,300,000 people in the UK had now received their first dose of the vaccine, with 1,100,000 of them receiving their jabs in England. The figures include 650,000 people over the age of 80.
More snow and ice to hit UK as temperatures drop to -13CEarlier today the Covid Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi said there would be a ‘massive acceleration’ in numbers of people being vaccinated in the coming days.
He told Sky News: ‘I’m confident that as we begin to deploy and get more sites operational – I talked about the hospitals, the GPs, the community pharmacies and the national vaccination centres – so we will be at over 1,000 sites vaccinating.
‘I’m confident you will see, certainly from January 4 to January 11, a real step up. So we’ve done over 1.3 million since December 8, you’re going to see a massive acceleration of that.’
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