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Mar 2022
Covid booster clinics to resume in Harrogate tomorrow
Spring booster vaccination clinics are set to begin at Harrogate’s Great Yorkshire Showground tomorrow.
The centre wound down operations in January following the winter booster campaign.
However, it will now resume clinics after the government announced further booster jabs for those aged 75 and over, care home residents and people with weakened immune systems.
Yorkshire Health Network, which is a federation of 17 GP practices in the Harrogate district, operates the site at the showground.
It will be open from 8.30am until 5.30pm tomorrow (April 1) and will also be accepting appointments for Sunday during the same opening hours.
The Sunday clinic is rearranged from the Saturday opening, which was previously advertised.
Tim Yarrow, operations manager at Yorkshire Health Network, said:
The clinic will also accept anybody aged over 12 for first, second and booster doses.
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Appointments can be made through the NHS national booking system. Bookings are advised — those who turn up for walk-ins should expect queues.
Meanwhile, Homecare Pharmacy Services will continue to offer walk-in jabs at its site on Chain Lane in Knaresborough.
The Chain Lane Community Hub will be open from 8am until 5.30pm tomorrow and 9am until 4pm on Saturday, April 2.
Pateley Bridge Pharmacy has clinics tomorrow from 9am to 1pm and and on Thursday next week from 9am to 1pm.
Have covid rates peaked?
The move to resume clinics comes after covid infection rates rocketed this month. However, the rate has begun to decline.
Latest government figures show the seven-day average rate of infection in the Harrogate district is now 976 per 100,000 people. It was 1,000 on March 25 after starting the month at 342.
Meanwhile, latest figures show Harrogate District Hospital has 30 patients with covid.
NHS England statistics show 235 people who tested positive for covid have died since March 2020 at Harrogate hospital.
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