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Three more Covid vaccination centres open across Derbyshire
Each of the new sites is led by a pharmacy team
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The coronavirus jab (Image: Derby Telegraph)
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A pharmacist who has started providing Covid-19 vaccinations at an Islamic community centre said he vaccinated his 85-year-old father to encourage everybody to get a jab “as soon as possible”.
Aftab Rehman, lead pharmacist at Pear Tree Pharmacy in Derby, began vaccinations at Ikhlas Islamic Education Centre on Thursday.
He told the PA news agency he wanted to vaccinate his father, Rehmat Khan, a former stroke patient and diabetes sufferer, to “give confidence” to the community.
Pharmacist Aftab Rehman talks to his father Rehmat Khan after giving him a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine (Joe Giddens/PA)
Mr Rehman said: “The problem is, via social media, we have misinformation and we have people who want to share conspiracy theories – especially as nobody knows how coronavirus came about.
Derby pharmacist gives his own dad Covid jab on first day of community roll-out
The community centre has been converted into a vaccination site in two weeks
13:55, 28 JAN 2021
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