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'Amazing' Vaccination Efforts Praised

Islanders have taken advantage of walk-in clinics at Beau Sejour and - for the first time - at GP surgeries.

Dr Nicola Brink has heaped praise on an 'amazing' vaccination effort, with a total of 2,654 people jabbed on Saturday (18 December) alone.

More than 1,400 doses were administered at the Community Vaccination Centre, with the others at three GP surgeries.

The Director of Public Health says she can't express how impressed she was - adding the community 'has been so supportive and patient.'

The booster programme has been stepped up to get as many people as possible protected ahead of a predicted large wave of Omicron Covid-19 cases in the coming weeks.

12 people in the Bailiwick have so far been identified as having the new variant.

The walk-in clinics continue:

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