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Published:
2:19 PM April 27, 2021
Market Gates Shopping Centre, in Great Yarmouth, is set to become a large-scale Covid vaccination centre
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A mass Covid vaccination centre is set to open in Great Yarmouth.
Jabs will be offered to eligible patients at the coastal town s Market Gates Shopping Centre from Thursday (April 29).
A coronavirus vaccine being administered at Castle Quarter in Norwich
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The site provides an additional option to the existing large-scale venues which are already delivering vaccines in Norwich, Attleborough, King s Lynn, North Walsham, Harleston, Lowestoft and Downham Market.
Smaller, GP-led hubs and the area s hospitals have also been administering injections to priority groups since December.
The large-scale Covid vaccination centre at Castle Quarter in Norwich
- Credit: Danielle Booden
Another person left frustrated in recent days was a man from Norwich, who said he was initially offered a jab in either Downham Market, Wisbech and Ingoldmells in Lincolnshire - varying from 40 to 100 miles away.
A week later, having checked the site on a regular basis, finally got an appointment in Attleborough on Friday (April 23).
The 46-year-old has, however, been able to book his second jab at the large-scale site in the city s Castle Quarter Shopping Centre.
Having received his vaccine, he said: The staff at the vaccination centre were great and it was all very efficiently done.
Published:
7:07 PM April 22, 2021
About a quarter of adults in Norfolk and Wavaney have had both doses of the coronavirus vaccine
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Almost a quarter of people in Norfolk and Waveney have had both coronavirus jabs - the second-highest vaccination rate in the country.
New data published by NHS England on Thursday (April 22) shows another 58,455 patients received second shots in the seven days up to April 18.
That takes the total number in the area who are fully vaccinated up to 206,394, which is 24.2pc of the adult population.
Of all 43 health systems across the nation, only Somerset has a better vaccination rate when it comes to both doses (25.5pc).