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DUDLEY S Black Country Living Museum will no longer be offering first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine as part of the second phase of the roll-out. The Tipton Road heritage museum has been operating as a mass vaccination centre for the borough and beyond since late January but NHS chiefs have today confirmed first doses will not be offered going forwards at the site which is set to re-open to visitors from Monday May 17. The museum site will continue to offer second doses to all those who received their first dose there. BCLM chief executive Andrew Lovett said: “We’re incredibly proud to have played our part in supporting the NHS to inoculate our local community against Covid by hosting the vaccination centre at BCLM.
The family of a 91-year-old grandfather who is in hospital with Covid-19 fear he may have caught the deadly virus from a pen at a vaccination centre.
Peter Short had not left his home in Bloxwich, Walsall, West Midlands, since last February before he was invited to have the Pfizer-BioNtech injection last month.
The retired ITV engineer, who famously switched on the channel when it first went on air in 1955, became seriously ill three days later.
His son, who has been shielding since last year, drove him to the vaccination hub at Bloxwich Active Living Centre in Walsall on January 13.