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There, NHS staff were inoculating people from a bus organized by Westminster Council.
No paperwork or proof of identification was required, according to reports.
Hundreds of people descended on London s Chinatown on Thursday after a city council offered no-questions-asked COVID-19 vaccines.
NHS staff onboard a double-decker bus organized by Westminster Council began dispensing jabs without an appointment on Gerrard Street at 12 p.m. until 5 p.m.
The pop-up vaccine site was advertised on the website of the Chinese Information and Advice Centre charity, The Evening Standard reported. You DO NOT need to have: NHS number, any proof of address, personal identification. Undocumented migrants also welcomed. Stay safe! Get vaccinated! the advert said.
Two major downtown Toronto intersections will be closed for a month this spring
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Construction crews in Toronto took advantage of the eerily empty streets caused by pandemic lockdown to expedite some much-needed roadwork across the city last year, and though some of that work is still ongoing, one major forthcoming road closure was not exactly in the plans.
An unexpected sewer burst under Bay Street right downtown has necessitated some heavy duty emergency maintenance that s going to mean a portion of the thoroughfare will have to be closed to all traffic for at least an entire month just as things are starting to open up.
Threatened by the pandemic, Britain’s Chinatowns have a rich, but often forgotten, history May 5, 2021
On a crisp morning in February, I headed to London’s Chinatown. It was the first day of Chinese New Year, and festive lanterns had been strung up to mark the occasion. Beneath the red and green arched gate at the entrance on Gerrard Street, a red banner announced
Kung Hei Fat Choy (a New Year greeting) in golden lettering. I remembered walking here with my mother a few years earlier. The streets were bursting with people and chatter. We went into one heaving restaurant after another looking for a table, before resorting to an upmarket option we thought we’d ruled out. But this morning few pedestrians lined the streets and the odd open restaurants were only selling takeaway. One sign of life was a bakery emitting warm smells of bread and char siu barbecue. “It’s been like this for a long time,” the woman behind the till told me…