Uber is offering a huge discount for people who need to head to local Covid-19 vaccination centres. The ride-hailing operator is offering to cover £15 of passengers’ trips to 42 mass vaccination centres in the UK. Near mid-January, Uber initially launched the discount scheme for one of the seven mass vaccination centres available at the time. But with many more vaccination hubs launched in London and Essex, the scheme has been extended for customers travelling to and from the vaccination centres. To claim the ride: 2) Select ‘Add Promo Code’ at the bottom 3) Use the codes listed below (depending on the region of the centre you’re attending)
People aged 70 and over in England are being urged to arrange to have a Covid-19 vaccine if they have not already been inoculated, in a change of tactics by the NHS. Until now the NHS has asked people not to contact them and to wait to be invited to come for their first dose of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Astra Zeneca/Oxford vaccine. But now it is advising anyone aged 70 or over who has not yet had their first shot to get in touch to arrange.
One of those is Kingston s Hawks Road site, with the other large centres including Hornsey Central Neighbourhood Health Centre at Crouch End, the Westfield Stratford City (an old Ikea and Dwell retail unit) and the Francis Crick Institute near Kings Cross. It will mean that more than 190 vaccination services will be operating across the capital by the end of the week, NHS England added. Dr Vin Diwakar, medical director for the NHS in London offered his praise of the health service s vaccination roll-out in the capital: It is testament to the tireless work of NHS staff across the capital that well over half a million vaccinations have already been given, providing safe, effective and well-tested protection against Covid-19 to Londoners in the vulnerable groups, he said.