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Covid vaccine UK: Full list of Covid vaccination centres in Cambridgeshire as more open
Covid jabs are being offered to the highest priority patients
Over 80s and care home residents and staff are being prioritised for the Covid vaccine (Image: 2021 Getty Images)
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It comes as the Government prepares to unveil its vaccine strategy with seven new mass vaccine centres. It will also reveal a major new testing programme aimed at people who are carrying the disease but do not have symptoms.
Around 500,000 letters are to be sent out this week to invite people aged over 80 to have their vaccine in centres within 30-45 minutes drive of their home.
This follows the first 130,000 letters being delivered over the weekend.
Appointments can be booked at the centres – including London’s Nightingale Hospital and the Etihad Stadium in Manchester – over the phone or online.
The Government is preparing to unveil its vaccine strategy with seven new mass vaccine centres (Image: Getty )
Elderly patients filmed queuing in freezing cold outside clinic to get coronavirus jabs
Paul Demetrious said his parents left without taking a vaccine but the local clinical commissioning group said they have since doubled the vaccinators to reduce the waiting time
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