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Hundreds of patients queued up to receive coronavirus jabs at new mass vaccination centres across England – including the Etihad Tennis Centre. Lines of patients, many over 80, formed on Monday outside some of the seven sites around the country where nurses prepared to vaccinate thousands at socially distanced tables or cubicles. Great-grandfather Nana Kwabena Edusei, 81, was the first member of the public to be jabbed at Newcastle’s Centre for Life, which will be able to vaccinate eight patients every five minutes. Mr Edusei, a retired manager with Associated British Foods, said after his experience: “It was not a problem at all.