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Whitstable GP urges employers to let staff leave work to get coronavirus vaccine | Updated: 19:51, 18 February 2021 A number of employers are refusing to let staff leave work to get Covid vaccines - sparking a plea for understanding from a leading GP. An employment lawyer from Medway is urging employers to allow their workers time off to go and get their coronavirus vaccine He is now appealing to employers to "be reasonable" and let their staff attend daytime vaccination appointments. "We're now getting to people who are at working age," said the GP, who is senior and executive partner a...
64,000 Covid-19 jabs in a week will see Kent reach target by February 15 | Updated: 15:28, 11 February 2021 Vaccinators in Kent need to administer 64,000 jabs in a week in order to meet the target of injecting the top four priority groups by mid February. The latest figures - published today but for the period up to Sunday - showed just under 350,000 first doses of the coronavirus vaccine had been administered. To February 7 almost 70% of all the top four groups had had a dose of the vaccine Picture: iStock That means about 64,000 people need to receive the vaccine this week in order to m...
About 62% of priority groups receive Covid-19 vaccine in Kent and Medway | Updated: 16:29, 04 February 2021 More than 60% of Kent's top four priority groups have been vaccinated against Covid-19 - with hopes growing that all will receive jabs by February 15. The government pledged to vaccinate the top four groups by mid-February, as part of the NHS's biggest immunisation programme in history. Nearly 260,000 people in Kent and Medway have received a Covid-19 jab. Stock image. It is estimated that in Kent and Medway, 411,000 people fall into these top groups - which comprise care home resid...
Kent Covid death toll passes 4,000 as only about 40% of top priority groups vaccinated | Updated: 19:03, 28 January 2021 About 60% of people in the top four priority groups are yet to be vaccinated in Kent as the county's death toll passes 4,000. New figures released this afternoon reveal nearly 240,000 people in Kent and Medway must receive jabs in the next 18 days if the government is to meet its target of vaccinating all those eligible by mid-February. A large proportion of people in the top four priority categories in Kent are yet to receive their first Covid vaccine The news comes as...