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Mar 2021
Last Updated: 05/03/2021
Nearly 60,000 receive covid vaccine in Harrogate district
The number of people in the Harrogate district who have received a first dose of a covid vaccine has reached nearly 60,000. Those aged over 60 and people with underlying health conditions have started to be offered a vaccine.
Nearly 60,000 people have had the first dose of a covid vaccine in the Harrogate district, according to the latest figures.
Statistics from NHS England show a breakdown of the number of people vaccinated by region and age.
A total of 58,293 people in the district have received a first dose so far - 36% of the district’s population.
The number includes:
- 10,679 people aged over 80
- 7,237 aged 75 to 79
- 9,894 aged 70 to 74
- 8,255 aged 65 to 69
- 22,228 below 65
It comes as health bosses in North Yorkshire have started to offer vaccines to over 60s and those with underlying health conditions.
The vaccine rollout in the district also received praise from Health Secretary Matt Hancock this week. Mr Hancock said health staff in the district had done an “amazing job” delivering the vaccine.
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Harrogate is currently served by vaccine sites at the Great Yorkshire Showground, Ripon Racecourse and the former Lidl supermarket in Knaresborough.
People in the district may also be invited to the mass vaccination centre at Askham Bar in York and a site at Elland Road stadium in Leeds.
Meanwhile, the company behind the new vaccination centre in Knaresborough has said it has ambitions to administer 10,000 vaccines a week from next month.
Jason Baskind, of Homecare Pharmacy Services which runs the site, told the Stray Ferret that vaccine supply is expected to improve “significantly” in the coming months.
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