Covid-19 vaccination offered to Kent school teachers in error
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Updated: 11:59, 31 January 2021
Potentially hundreds of school teachers in the county have been offered the Covid-19 vaccine due to an error in an online booking system, health chiefs have admitted.
Teaching staff in parts of east Kent believed they had been offered the chance to sign up for an appointment at a new vaccine centre at Kent s Canterbury cricket ground this week.
An error lead to teachers being offered the Covid-19 vaccine. Stock Image
It comes after links to an East Kent Hospitals patient portal were spread among staff at dozens of schools - many of whom believed it to be a genuine offer.
MP Rosie Duffield backs Canterbury Cathedral becoming vaccine centre
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Updated: 18:20, 31 January 2021
Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield says it makes perfect sense for the city s Cathedral to be used as a vaccine hub.
Ms Duffield made the remark on Twitter after Charlotte Cornell, the 2019 Labour candidate for Dover, asked whether there were any plans for the landmark to be used as a location to administer vaccines.
ABC certainly willing and has suggested KCC speak with them. Have heard no updates that KCC currently planning on this..â Rosie Duffield MP ð (@RosieDuffield1) January 30, 2021
Several cathedrals across the country have been turned into centres, such as in Salisbury and Lichfield.
Kent Covid death toll passes 4,000 as only about 40% of top priority groups vaccinated
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Updated: 19:03, 28 January 2021
About 60% of people in the top four priority groups are yet to be vaccinated in Kent as the county s death toll passes 4,000.
New figures released this afternoon reveal nearly 240,000 people in Kent and Medway must receive jabs in the next 18 days if the government is to meet its target of vaccinating all those eligible by mid-February.
A large proportion of people in the top four priority categories in Kent are yet to receive their first Covid vaccine
The news comes as Kent hospitals have reported a further 42 deaths today; 11 in east Kent, 23 in Maidstone, and eight in Medway.
Three mass coronavirus vaccine centres to open in Kent imminently
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Updated: 13:41, 16 March 2021
More mass coronavirus vaccination centres are expected to open imminently across the county by the end of next week.
Three more mass vaccine centres in Kent are to open. Stock picture
The Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which oversees the local health system, remained tight-lipped about announcing any specific locations during a virtual meeting earlier today.
Paula Wilkins, the chief nurse at the CCG, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: There will be a mass vaccination centre serving the north part of Kent, which covers Gillingham and Rainham.
MP Gordon Henderson steps in after Sittingbourne teachers offered Covid vaccine
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Updated: 16:08, 28 January 2021
MP Gordon Henderson has stepped in after some school teachers in Kent were offered the coronavirus vaccine ahead of others.
Invitations were emailed to schools in Sittingbourne yesterday asking for teachers mobile telephone numbers so they could attend The Chestnuts Surgery in East Street today to have a jab.
The vaccine is currently only available to certain groups - and that does not include teachers
According to Government policy only those in the first phase of the priority group roll out, such as those aged 80 and over and frontline health workers, are entitled to the vaccine at the moment.