JAB'S A GOOD'UN
65 MILLION doses given to Brits – but our Jabs Army still needs your help
AN astonishing 65 million Covid jabs have been given to Brits — but there is still plenty more work to be done by The Sun’s Jabs Army.
The push is on to try to give every adult two doses of the virus vaccine by next month.
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And our 50,000 volunteer stewards, who joined up in January, are having their busiest week so far.
Requests to the Royal Voluntary Service for Jabs Army heroes to take on shifts at inoculation centres have risen by 80 per cent.
That is why we are appealing for thousands of readers living in 50 of the country’s virus hotspots to sign up to volunteer.
Bolton is one of the towns where more Jabs Army volunteers are desperately needed.
Four new surge vaccine centres — in addition to the existing eight — have opened in the town while there is also a coach converted into a vaccine centre.
'EVERY FRIENDLY FACE IS NEEDED'
This can travel to locations where there is a low uptake of jabs.
Dr Helen Wall, leading the fight against Covid in the Greater Manchester region, said: “I’d jab 24 hours a day if we were allowed.
“But in the last two and a half weeks, since setting up the extra sites, we have done just over 18,000 vaccinations.
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Sign up today
TO sign up with the Royal Voluntary Service, which organises our Jabs Army shifts, register by scanning the QR code below with your phone, or visit the website.
And if you are one of the existing 50,000 recruits but have not yet been able to do any shifts, find out where you are needed by clicking on your GoodSAM app.
Make sure the Location setting is enabled on your phone
Click on the Future Tasks tab and volunteering shifts available in your area will appear. If there is one you can do, click Accept.
It will give details of vaccination centres and when and where to report.
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50 towns, cities and council areas where the Jabs Army needs you now
- Barking and Dagenham, Essex
- Barnet, North London
- Birmingham, West Midlands
- Bolton, Greater Manchester
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset
- Bradford, West Yorks
- Brent, West London
- Bristol
- Camden, North London
- Cannock Chase, Staffs
- Chelmsford, Essex
- Cheshire West & Chester
- Colchester, Essex
- Coventry
- Croydon, South London
- Derby
- Dudley, West Midlands
- Ealing, West London
- Fenland, Cambs
- Hammersmith & Fulham,
- West London
- Hillingdon, West London
- Hounslow, West London
- Kensington and Chelsea, London
- Knowsley, Merseyside
- Lambeth, South London
- Leicester
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Merton, South London
- Newark & Sherwood, Notts
- North Norfolk
- North Somerset
- Northampton
- Norwich
- Nottingham
- Peterborough, Cambs
- Preston, Lancs
- Rochdale, Greater Manchester
- Salford, Greater Manchester
- Sandwell, West Midlands
- Slough, Berks
- Stafford, Staffs
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Sutton, South London
- Tendring, Essex
- Walsall, West Midlands
- Wandsworth, South West London
- Wigan, Greater Manchester
- Wirrall, Merseyside
- Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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“The initial response has been great but, as life has got back to normal, we’ve had fewer volunteers.
“We need more people to come forward to help. Every friendly face is very welcome and much needed.”
The rollout seems to be working in Bolton, which no longer has the worst Covid rate in Britain, although the seven-day average is still 386.7 cases per 100,000.
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