When will Covid vaccines be delivered in Cowbridge?

By Ellyn Wright

11th Jan 2021 | Local News

All care home residents and staff, frontline health and social care staff, everyone over 70 and everyone who is clinically extremely vulnerable in Cowbridge can expect to have been offered their Covid vaccination by mid-February.

Speaking at a press conference today, Health Minister Vaughn Gething said that all frontline Welsh Ambulance Service staff will have been offered the vaccine by 18 January, and that all people living and working in care homes will have been offered the vaccine by the end of this month.

Mr Gething set out three milestones, starting with the mid-February date.

By spring the Health Minister said the Government will have offered the vaccine to everyone in phase one priority groups: people over 50 and all those who are at risk because they have an underlying health condition.

Then by autumn Mr Gething said the focus will be on offering Coronavirus vaccines to the rest of the population, in line with the latest advice from the JCVI.

Wales received roughly 44,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for use in the first fortnight.

"But we have been given assurances this will increase rapidly from next week, allowing us to increase the scale and pave of our roll-out," said Mr Gething.

Speaking at today's cabinet meeting Vale of Glamorgan Council leader Neil Moore said: "Please please stay at home, please look after yourself, please look after our community.

"I've said it so many times, that I really do hope people take heed of it now.

"We've got the vaccine rolled out shortly, Vaughn Gething has been on TV this afternoon explaining the way it's going to be carried out.

"You will be contacted if you're in one of the groups to be vaccinated. Don't contact your surgeries to ask, they'll contact you. You will be asked to attend when its ready for you.

"Please, please stay at home, and even after you've had the first vaccination and it offers you some protection, take heed of the fact that you should stay at home and abide by the rules.

"Only by doing that by working together will we defeat this deadly virus," he said.

Mr Gething also warned of a number of scams involving Covid vaccines.

He described a "particularly nasty scam" in which people had been tricked into paying for the vaccine and then jabbed in the arm.

"The NHS will never ask for your bank details and vaccines are not being delivered at your front door.

"Everyone will be contacted directly by the NHS, either by phone or by letter, advising you about where you will have your vaccine," he said.

     

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