The Manchester Tennis Centre next to the Etihad Stadium’s is going to be used as a regional mass vaccination hub.
It is one of seven unveiled by the Government today who are hoping to have it up and running next week, as part of plans to rapidly ramp up how many people can get the jab every day
The other six centres are Robertson House in Stevenage; the ExCel Centre in London; the Centre for Life in Newcastle, Epsom Downs Racecourse in Surrey, Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol and Millennium Point in Birmingham.
Boris Johnson earlier told the House of Commons that the government will use “every available second” of the shutdown to place an “invisible shield” around elderly and vulnerable people through the rollout of vaccines.
Declaring that the UK was now engaged in a “sprint” to vaccinate those at a higher risk before coronavirus can reach them, he urged the public to “give our army of vaccinators the biggest head start we possibly can”.
