Latest Covid-19 news from across Lancashire and South Cumbria
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West Lancashire GPs begin offering Covid-19 vaccine as part of biggest NHS immunisation programme
Posted: 16th December 2020The first local coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination services run by family doctors and their teams are now being rolled out across Lancashire and South Cumbria as part of the biggest vaccination programme in NHS history.
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Retired nurses return to the front line to help vaccination programme
Posted: 16th December 2020Two retired nurses with almost 80 years of service between them have returned to the front line to help deliver Pfizer Covid-19 vaccinations in Blackpool.
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‘It’s as easy as pie’: First people on the Fylde Coast receive COVID-19 vaccinations outside hospital
Posted: 15th December 2020People in Blackpool and Lytham were today among the first in the country to receive a COVID-19 vaccination outside of hospital.
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Fylde coast nurse is a vaccine “hero’’
Posted: 15th December 2020A Fylde Coast nurse who has been shielding because of a cancer diagnoses has been labelled a hero by her grand-daughter.
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Covid-19 vaccinations commence in community settings in Chorley, South Ribble and Greater Preston
Posted: 15th December 2020The first Covid-19 vaccinations administered by GPs in Chorley, South Ribble and Greater Preston took place today, Tuesday 15th December 2020.
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Royal Preston Hospital gives first Covid vaccinations in momentous ‘turning point’ in battle against the pandemic
Posted: 8th December 2020Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the first hospitals in the country to receive the Covid-19 vaccine and we have now started to vaccinate the most vulnerable in our communities.
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Agnes “honoured’’ to be the first Fylde coast person to get the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine
Posted: 8th December 2020An 82-year-old woman from Lytham St Annes has become the first person across the Fylde coast to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.