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Nine Kent areas among the most infected in the UK as cases continue to rise | Updated: 09:06, 16 December 2020 Nine of the county s 13 districts have an infection rate of more than 400 per 100,000 people, the highest in the country. This has brought Kent and Medway s overall infection rate up to 458.1 as cases rise by 30.4% to 8,520 in the week ending December 9. Source: Public Health England Kent and Medway are two of just three upper tier local authorities in England with an infection rate of more than 400 - the third being Havering, London. Swale maintains the top spot in Kent - and the country - with 643.6 cases per 100,000 people - a rise of 11% in a week, bringing the new cases total in seven days up to 966. ....
GPs begin offering Covid vaccine at nine sites across Kent | Updated: 11:59, 17 December 2020 Nine sites are opening across Kent and Medway from today so GPs can start to deliver the Covid vaccine as cases of the virus continue to rise. The centres, which will provide doses of the Pfizer / Biontech vaccine, will be the first to open in the county, with more locations due to be announced in the coming weeks. It has been a huge logistical challenge with GP surgeries working around the clock to make sure everything is in place to be able to welcome the most vulnerable patients. ....
KentOnline Podcast: Mass roll out of coronavirus vaccine gets under way in Kent | Updated: 16:45, 15 December 2020 It s a big day in the fight against coronavirus as a mass roll out of the first vaccine gets under way in Kent. Nine sites are opening in the county over the next few days so the most vulnerable patients can have the jab. It s less than two weeks since the Pfizer / Biontech vaccine was approved for use in the UK - we ve been speaking to Dr Jack Jacobs from Hamstreet Surgery near Ashford. Also in today s podcast, a Whitstable woman who was told she had cancer, only to find out after 18 months of chemotherapy that wasn t the case, speaks about her ordeal. ....