By Press Association 2021
Robert Jenrick visited Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham, where a Covid-19 vaccination centre has been set up
Faith leaders play a “vital role” in encouraging people to get a coronavirus vaccine, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said, as he visited the UK’s first vaccination centre opened in a mosque.
Mr Jenrick met with the imam at Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, as well as the pharmacists and staff who run the vaccination centre and people who received their first dose of the vaccine on Saturday.
The mosque is one of dozens of new sites across the UK offering coronavirus vaccinations, with others to open at Stoneleigh Park near Kenilworth in Warwickshire, Salisbury City Hall in Wiltshire and Bath Racecourse in Somerset next week.
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