People in the Black Country are being reminded that they have two weeks left to take up the offer of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Friday 20 December marked the last day that COVID-19 vaccine appointments could be booked via the National Booking System, following guidance from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).
However, walk-in vaccines remain available at a host of community pop-up clinics in the Black Country until the end of January. This is the last opportunity for eligible people to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
People are eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine if they are aged 65 or over, pregnant, aged 6 months to 64 years in clinical risk groups, live in a care home for older adults, or are a frontline health and social care worker.
Walk-in COVID-19 vaccines are available at the following locations over the next two weeks:
Wolverhampton
- Sainsburys, Bentley Bridge, WV11 1UP
- Thursday 23 January, 11am-6pm
- Wolverhampton City Centre, Queens Square, WV1
- Friday 24 January, 9am-3pm
- Sainsburys, Raglan Street, WV3 0ST
- Thursday 30 January, 9am-3pm
Dudley
- Dudley Market Place, High Street, DY1 1PQ
- Friday 17 January, 9am-2pm
- Friday 31 January, 9am-2pm
- Asda, Pearson Street, Brierley Hill, DY5 3BJ
- Monday 27 January, 10am-4pm
Walsall
- Tesco, Silver Street, Brownhills, WS8 6DZ
- Tuesday 21 January, 9am-3pm
- Willenhall Market, Market Place, Willenhall, WV13 2AA
- Wednesday 29 January, 9am-3pm
Sandwell
- Asda, Wednesbury Oak Road, Tipton, DY4 0BP
- Monday 20 January, 9am-3pm
- Wednesbury Town Centre (near Clock Tower)
- Wednesday 22 January, 9am-3pm
- Tesco, Fox Oak Street, Cradley Heath, B64 5DF
- Tuesday 28 January, 9am-3pm
Sally Roberts, Chief Nursing Officer for the NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board (ICB), said: “The COVID-19 vaccination programme started in October and since then more than 134,000 people in the Black Country have come forward for a vaccine to get protected.
“Now, with just two weeks left before the COVID-19 vaccination offer closes, we want to encourage everyone who is eligible and yet to receive a vaccine, to come forward before it’s too late.
“COVID-19 hasn’t gone away but your protection from previous vaccinations wanes over time, so it’s still important to get your jab if you are eligible. So, please visit our pop-up clinics over the next few weeks.”
Flu vaccinations are also available at the pop-up clinics for those eligible and will remain available until the end of March.
You can find more information about the pop-up clinics online here.
