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Coronavirus vaccine to be issued at more Kent and Medway GP surgeries as NHS extends number of vaccination centres | Updated: 16:56, 18 December 2020 More GP surgeries will start issuing coronavirus vaccines after additional centres were set up and approved by NHS bosses. The extra eight in towns across Covid-hit Kent now bring the total to 17 after the first nine started giving out jabs from Tuesday. Frederick Hall, 80, from Swanscombe, receiving one of the first vaccines at Swanscombe Health Centre. Picture: NHS Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group The second wave is up and running with the NHS now contacting more patients to invite them to attend a vaccine appointment. ....
Elderly Herne Bay patients become town s first to receive coronavirus vaccines | Updated: 14:12, 30 December 2020 Elderly patients lined the entrance to a hospital today as they became the first people in a Covid-hit Kent town to receive coronavirus vaccines. The injections are being given to almost 1,000 over-80s at the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital in Herne Bay. The town currently has one of the highest infection rates in the country, and accounts for more than 40% of all new cases across the Canterbury district. So the vaccination programme, which offers recipients 95% protection, cannot come soon enough. Beltinge resident Winifred Prett, who was the first in the town to be jabbed this morning, is looking forward to going shopping once she receives the second dose of the vaccine in three weeksâ time. ....