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Oct 2021

Last Updated: 19/10/2021
Health
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Great Yorkshire Showground vaccine centre to reopen

by Connor Creaghan

| 19 Oct, 2021
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An urgent meeting to address the Harrogate district's soaring seven-day coronavirus rate heard Harrogate's Great Yorkshire Showground will again be used to administer jabs.

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Staff at the Great Yorkshire Showground site helping with the vaccination effort back in February.

A vaccination centre will reopen at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate amid surging covid cases driven by the transmission of the virus in schools.

An urgent press conference called today to address the Harrogate district's high infection rate heard the Yorkshire Event Centre will be used to administer jabs again.

Currently there is no specific date for the return of the showground vaccine centre, which was last used in June. However, the meeting heard it will coincide with the "peak of the booster programme".

Today's meeting was convened hastily in response to the district's seven-day coronavirus rate reaching 733 cases per 100,000 people.

It is the highest in Yorkshire and one of the highest in England.



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Rachael Durrett, head of communication and engagement at North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group said during the meeting:

"In response the Yorkshire Event Centre site will be stood up later in the year to cover the peak of the booster programme.
"There are also pharmacy sites that service the Harrogate area, including at Knaresborough. We will share a full list of pharmacy sites."


'Vaccine centre will not clash with events'


A spokesperson for the Great Yorkshire Showground said the vaccine centre will not clash with any of its existing events.

The vaccine centre will open in Hall 2 straight after the Christmas fair, which runs from December 2 to 5.