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Published:
6:00 AM January 14, 2021
Updated:
9:01 AM January 14, 2021
14 new Covid-19 vaccine sites are opening in Suffolk and north Essex this week - with the first due to go live today.
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Six new coronavirus vaccine sites will start welcoming patients at GPs and community halls across Suffolk today - as the rollout takes its next step.
The primary care network (PCN) sites at Constable Country Medical Practice in East Bergholt, Woodbridge Community Hall, Debenham Leisure Centre, Hardwicke House Practice in Sudbury, Long Melford Practice and the Jubilee Centre in Mildenhall, are the first of the 14 new locations to go live this week.
It s been great here .
Audrey Web and her husband Howard Web in the waiting area after receiving their vaccination.
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The pair will return in a few weeks to get their second dose.
The vaccine delivery at Constable Country is primarily being run by GP staff; however, a number of volunteers were on site helping with traffic, parking and directing people outside the surgery.
Pete Keeble, the practice manager, said 346 people received their first dose of the vaccine on the first day of the rollout.
He said the majority of those were the over-80s cohort, but also some frontline workers.
A patient receives a coronavirus vaccine dose at Two Rivers Medical Centre in Ipswich
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People over the age of 80 will be able to start getting the Covid-19 jab at a number of new vaccine centres in Suffolk towards the end of the week.
The vaccines, which include both the Pfizer BioNTech and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, will be arriving at the centres in the coming days. They will be ready for appointments for the over-80s cohort the following morning.
A spokesman for Suffolk and north east Essex s clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) said most of the over-80s cohort will be given the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.