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Dec 2020
Harrogate district set to get first covid vaccine injections next week
The first covid vaccines in North Yorkshire will be injected at seven sites across the county next week, it was revealed today.
Amanda Bloor, accountable officer at North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group, gave the news everyone has been waiting to hear at a weekly media briefing of North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum, which represents all the organisations in the county responding to the pandemic.
Ms Bloor said the sites had been identified but did not reveal where they are.
She said the CCG, which buys medical services for the county, will provide further details when they are finalised.
Ms Bloor described the programme as a "logistical challenge", but added that it was "fantastic news" that patients were starting to get the vaccine across the country.
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Planning for the vaccination programme is taking place on a regional level, including East Yorkshire, Hull and North Lincolnshire.
People included in the highest priority category, including those aged over 80 and front line NHS staff, will be the first to be offered the jab.
Ms Bloor said she anticipated that more sites will offer the vaccine in the coming weeks.
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It comes as the first coronavirus vaccines were dispatched to 50 hospitals in the UK as the country embarks on the biggest vaccination programme in British history.
Each hospital received a batch of 975 doses. Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, which runs St James's University Hospital, is the closest to offer the vaccine to Harrogate.
Sylvia Harris, an 80-year-old NHS healthcare worker who joined the trust when she was 26, was the first to receive the jab in the city yesterday.
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