32 vaccination sites to open across England this week. (PA) 32 vaccine sites will open across the country this week, NHS England has said. One site has been set up at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, made famous by the BBC-hit Peaky Blinders. Other sites roped into the vaccination effort include a race course, a show ground, a football stadium and a former Ikea store. The new vaccination centres will focus on vaccinatinghealth and social care staff on Monday, before opening their doors to other priority patients on Tuesday. NHS England said hundreds of thousands of letters have already been sent out to people over the age of 80 in the vicinity of the new sites inviting them to book a jab.
A SECOND mass Covid-19 vaccination hub opens in Somerset this week. The Royal Bath and West Showground will start to vaccinate local residents and frontline heath and care workers from the highest priority groups. It will open seven days a week from 8am to 8pm, as part of an additional wave of ‘large’ vaccination centres opening across the country. Final preparations have been taking place on site before the first people arrive to get their jab this week. Health and care organisations have been working together for several weeks to put detailed plans in place to prepare the site for the large scale vaccination programme.