Covid-19 (Coronavirus)

The new Chichester Vaccine Centre is up and running and in full swing. Last Friday I visited the site, based at the Westgate Centre, to see how it was going and to thank the fantastic team of volunteers and NHS staff who are now inoculating 1,000 people a day.

Local MP, Gillian Keegan visited the new Chichester Vaccine Hub on Friday 26th February located at the City’s Westgate Centre. The MP went to see how the newly established centre was running and thank the staff and volunteers.

This week the Prime Minister announced his vision of how we can return to a life resembling normality, made possible thanks to the remarkable work of the NHS, military, volunteers and many others across the country, who’ve worked tirelessly to get the vaccine programme rolled out.

The UK will offer its world-leading genomics expertise to identify new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 to countries who do not have the resources to do so.

Deal takes total number of Valneva vaccines to 100 million, to be manufactured in the UK in Scotland

Last Friday, I visited St Richard’s Hospital and met the fantastic team running the vaccine hub, where they’re administering the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, the first of the three approved vaccines for use by the MRHA.

Chichester MP, Gillian Keegan, said she was “blown away” after visiting the City’s vaccination hub at St Richard’s Hospital in the City.

New Government schemes have been launched in the Chichester District to help businesses that have been affected by the current Coronavirus lockdown.

Regular inspections are being carried out by Chichester District Council officers in supermarkets and other essential businesses to make sure that they are Covid-Secure.