Especially for women. It s more comfortable to come into the mosque with other ladies that are having it done.
The queue for the men s Covid vaccinations at the Norwich Central Mosque. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
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Sisters Syeda Shah, left, and Jawaria Syed, centre, and their mum, Asra Zoofishan, chat after having their Covid vaccinations at the Norwich Central Mosque. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
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The CCG is working with community and faith leaders where there is some hesitancy, to encourage people to take up the vaccine and counter misinformation.
Khadijat Adegoke, clinical pharmacist, ready to administer the Covid vaccination to Asra Zoofishan at the Norwich Central Mosque. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
Jon Williamson from Norwich struggled with his addictions during lockdown
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One month into the first lockdown Jon Williamson stood on the edge of relapse.
The 41-year-old, from Northumberland Street in Norwich, had taken his last drink in June, going from drinking at least 60 units of alcohol a day to sobriety in nine months.
“My sister died from pancreatic cancer, ” he said. “Watching her die like that made me need to stop.”
But when the country locked down in mid-March, Jon’s routine of four to five sessions of therapy and two to three AA meetings a week was pulled out from underneath him.
Amy Goreham delivered trampoline fitness classes from her kitchen during the first lockdown
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Hollie Watts put on six stone in eight months after being prescribed anti-depressants by her GP.
“The choice was to either get my mental health under control or not put weight on,” the 26-year old said. “I had to get my head sorted first.”
The mum-of-three from Walsoken, near Wisbech, joined a gym in February last year, but it was closed by lockdown a few weeks later.
Undeterred, she decided to act. For inspiration, she put pictures of how she used to look all over her house.