CLACTON Hospital will open as a mass coronavirus vaccination centre this week, NHS bosses have confirmed.
The hospital, which is run by Anglian Community Enterprise and located in Tower Road, is one of six mass vaccines centres opening in the east from today.
Each centre can vaccine hundreds of people a day and thousands each week.
This will enable the vaccination programme to expand as further vaccine supplies become available.
The six new centres are among a series opening nationally this week as the NHS accelerates the number of sites which can distribute the first dose of the jab.
People in the top four priority groups including people aged 70 years old and over, and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable, are being invited to book an appointment at the vaccination centres through the national booking service.