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Xindi Wei
Published:
12:50 PM April 13, 2021
Queues outside the Cancer Research UK shop in Angel as non-essential shops reopened on April 12
- Credit: Xindi Wei
Shop managers at non-essential stores in Angel are excited to welcome customers back for the first time in four months, as lockdown eases.
Laura Macdonald, 60, floor manager at Haygen, a fashion, jewellery and gift store in Camden Passage, told the Gazette: “It is so good to have customers back. Really nice to just have the door open so people can walk in.
“We have done online and click and collect through lockdown, but it is not the same as actually seeing people and being able to interact with them.”
At UCLH, we have seen first-hand the terrible toll on individuals and families that Covid-19 can bring.
Over 18m people have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine in England in the past four months, but the uptake is being affected by vaccine hesitancy in some quarters.
Since the first cases were reported last year, conspiracy theories began circulating, which included myths about the virus being a secret ploy by pharmaceutical companies to sell a vaccine and suggesting business magnate Bill Gates was creating a tracking device to be implanted in a vaccine.
Reticence to be vaccinated hasn t been helped by the fact that some countries, including Demark, Norway and Iceland, have halted the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs amid fears they cause blood clots - although Europe s own medical regulator, the European Medicines Agency, has said there is no clear link.
A large-scale vaccination centre has been set up at the Islington Business Design Centre
- Credit: Theo Tzia
A large-scale NHS coronavirus vaccination hub has been set up at the Islington Business Design Centre.
Run by University College London Hospital (UCLH), the centre is currently ramping up to vaccinate about 2,000 people daily.
Rows of private booths have been built in the large exhibition hall off Upper Street in Angel, where people give their consent to be immunised before receiving their jab.
Rows of private booths have been built in the large exhibition hall off Upper Street in Angel
- Credit: Theo Tzia