Britain prepares to roll out a covid-19 vaccine
Woking Leisure Centre is in for a busy year
WITH AEROBICS classes, a Costa Coffee and two new swimming-pool slides, Woking Leisure Centre has plenty to attract punters. Soon it may have something more: a mass vaccination centre. According to National Health Service (NHS) plans seen by The Economist, it is one of seven venues so far identified as possible “Nightingale Vaccination Centres” for what will be the country’s biggest-ever vaccination programme. Others include Leeds Town Hall, a university sports centre in Hull and the Olympic Copper Box Arena. The plan is to have some ready to go by the end of the year at the latest.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Ready, steady, jab”
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