Health bosses praise rollout of Covid jabs
HEALTH bosses have praised the huge effort to roll out the Covid-19 vaccine and protect the most vulnerable members of the community.
In Macclesfield the jab has been given at Andrew’s Pharmacy – one of the first pharmacies in the country to offer this – as well as at GP surgeries and the town’s hospital.
And at NHS Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s governing body meeting on Thursday, January 21, there was praise for the work carried out across the county.
Tracey Cole, NHS executive director of strategy and partnerships, said: “Vaccination is the best way out of this pandemic.
“The Covid-19 vaccination programme is the largest vaccination programme in British history and it has taken an epic feat of heroic will to get to where we are now – with 23 vaccination sites up and running across Cheshire – while also continuing to run other services to support our residents.
“Thank you to everyone involved in this – staff, volunteers and patients who are coming forward in their thousands to receive a vaccination.”
The NHS is planning to vaccinate everyone in the top four priority groups by mid-February – including older care home residents and staff, everyone aged over 70, all frontline NHS and care staff and all those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.
This week it was estimated that 10 per cent of Cheshire East residents have already had their first Covid-19 vaccination jab.
Council leader Sam Corcoran said this on Friday, January 22, meaning around 38,000 people have received a dose.
He said: “The vaccine programme is going very well. Hopefully all over 80s will be vaccinated by the end of January – this is a challenging target but it looks likely to be met.
“I estimate that already, 10 per cent of the population of Cheshire East have been vaccinated.
“The vaccination programme is a huge task that will take months. I would also appeal to people not to demand details when particular groups will be vaccinated or why the vaccination centres are in some towns and not others.
“The NHS is under huge pressure, the administrators as well as staff.”