Isle Of Wight Festival boss John Giddings has shared tentative plans for the UK music and events industry to assist with the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine.
Taking to Twitter earlier this week, Giddings suggested that the UK Government should put the skills of the thousands of event and live crew unable to work at present to use in helping to coordinate and administer the vaccination programme. He also suggested that the many music venues across the UK that are currently unable to open their doors due to coronavirus restrictions could be used similarly in helping to speed up the rollout of the vaccine amid an increasingly deadly third wave of the virus.
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London’s G-A-Y nightclub wants to become a COVID-19 vaccination centre, its owner Jeremy Joseph has revealed.
Writing on Twitter on Wednesday (6 January), Joseph said vaccinations were “the answer” to the coronavirus pandemic, and offered up his venue to public health officials as a vaccination centre.
“Like other hospitality venues, on Sunday, we wrote to Westminister Council offering heaven Nightclub as a vaccination centre, it’s an empty venue already split into booths,” he wrote
“It would be an honour if it was used while closed to help vaccinate people.”
Vaccination Is The Answer
Like other Hospitality venues, On Sunday, We wrote to Westminister Council Offering Heaven Nightclub As a vaccination centre, its an empty venue already split into booths, it would be an honour if it was used while closed to help vaccinate people. ?
The boss of the Isle of Wight Festival has called on Boris Johnson to make use of an “army” of unemployed staff in the music industry to help with the national vaccine effort.
Like many in the arts, John Giddings and his staff will face a big financial hit if the popular annual music festival is unable to go ahead as intended in June.
“I am petrified they won’t roll [the vaccine] out in time for the festival to go ahead and I want to do everything physically possible to help,” Mr Giddings told the PA news agency.
Dear @BorisJohnson – we are the music business – we have thousands of skilled people capable of running events & empty theatres/clubs/arenas – give us the vaccines & we will work 24 hours a day to sort it ?
Boris Johnson reveals seven Covid vaccination centres will open across England next week to deliver tens of thousands of jabs a week – as small pharmacies beg officials to let them join the huge effort to end lockdown by mid-February
Hubs to be set up in most regions of England, except Yorkshire and East Midlands, run by NHS and volunteers
Boris Johnson unveiled them today in another push to turbocharge the lockdown-ending roll-out
The Government is aiming to inoculate 13.2million Britons by mid-February so restrictions can be eased
Former prime minister Tony Blair today called for Government to throw all its weight behind immense jab plan