A pop-up vaccination centre has opened in a Middlesbrough shopping centre to encourage people to get a jab as the town has the highest rate of Covid infections in England.
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Figures up to and including 7 January showed there were 3,111 people per 100,000 infected with coronavirus, a rise of 63% on the previous week, and more than 140 people are being treated for the virus in hospital.
Vaccination rates have lagged behind in Middlesbrough - barely three-quarters of residents have had a first jab - compared to 84% across the region as whole.
Dr Vaishali Nanda, from Middlesbrough Primary Care Network who was at the Cleveland Centre earlier, said: "We've had about 20 walk-ins this morning so it's giving people at work or out shopping another opportunity to get vaccinated."
The vaccines were being given by two retired GPs.
One - Dr Hilary Barton (pictured above) - said it was a "nice job to do."
