13th Jan 2021 11:19
(Alliance News) - Asda will become the first UK supermarket to offer in store vaccinations, the grocer said on Wednesday.
From the week beginning January 25, Asda Stores Ltd will begin operating a vaccination centre from an in-store pharmacy in Birmingham, West Midlands.
Asda said it was selected by NHS England, and it will administer jabs to the most vulnerable.
"Asda is investing to transform its George [clothing] department to make space for the vaccination centre – which will operate 8am to 8pm, seven days a week and have the capacity to administer 250 jabs per day," the company said.
"The site is the first Asda pharmacy to be approved to support the Pfizer Inc-BioNTech SE vaccine programme and Asda is continuing to work with Public Health England and NHS England to assess other sites within its estate that could support this programme."
Asda also offered the use of all of its 238 in-store pharmacies to assist with the rollout of the AstraZeneca PLC-Oxford University vaccine.
"As this variant of the vaccine is easier to transport and store, it could be administered from Asda's full network of in-store pharmacies throughout the country," the grocer added.
Latest figures showed that as of Tuesday, a further 1,243 people in the UK had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, which brings the UK total to 81,960.
The government also said that, as of 9am on Tuesday, there had been a further 45,533 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK. It brings the total number of cases in the UK to over 3.1 million.
By Eric Cunha; [email protected]
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