Birmingham's oldest LGBT club becomes 'country's first nightclub Covid vaccine centre,' says owner
Birmingham's oldest and largest LGBT venue is to 'become the country's first nightclub Covid vaccine centre,' says the venue's owner.
Lawrence Barton says the city's Nightingale Club will become a coronavirus vaccine centre from tomorrow (7th August) after teaming up with the NHS.
The news comes as cases of Covid-19 have increased across the majority of the UK with Lincoln having the highest positive rate in the UK at 653 cases per 100,000 people. Public health officials say the rise is linked to the night-time economy.
The Department of Health and Social Care said more than two-thirds of young adults aged 18 to 29 have received one dose of the vaccine.
But there have been concerns over the uptake of the jab among younger people.
NHS medical director of primary care and deputy lead for the NHS vaccination programme, Dr Nikki Kanani, said: “While thousands of people continue to come forward every week, we must not forget that there are more than 5,000 people who are seriously ill in hospital with Covid and more than a fifth of those are young people – the vaccine remains our single best defence against Covid and I would encourage anyone yet to take up the offer of a vaccine to attend one of the many walk-in sites across the country this weekend.”
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