Three large walk-in vaccination sites are open in Croydon this week as health authorities seek to get increasing numbers of people in the borough protected against the Covid-19 virus.

The numbers of new Covid cases reported week on week are falling in Croydon at the moment but infection rates remain high.

1,012 people have died in Croydon with Covid-19 mentioned as a cause on their death certificate since the start of the pandemic, according to Public Health England (PHE) data.

In Croydon, three large walk-in vaccination sites are operating at present, with programmes running through Sunday (August 15):

Centrale Shopping Centre, Croydon

  • Location: 21 North End, Croydon, CR0 1TY
  • Opening hours:
  • Oxford-AZ vaccine: 8am to 7.30pm, Everyday until Sunday 15 August 2021
  • Pfizer vaccine: 8.15am to 7.30pm, Everyday until Sunday 15 August 2021
  • Second doses will only be offered if it is at least eight weeks since the first dose.
  • Please bring proof of:
  • Age – like a driving license or passport
  • Your 1st vaccination card or NHS app

Selhurst Park Stadium, Croydon

  • Location: Holmesdale Rd, London, SE25 6PU
  • Opening hours:
  • Oxford-AZ vaccine: 8am to 7pm, Everyday until Sunday 15 August 2021
  • Pfizer vaccine: 8.30am to 7.15pm, Everyday until Sunday 15 August 2021
  • Please join us at Glaziers and we will direct you to the right place
  • Second doses will only be offered if it is at least eight weeks since the first dose.
  • Please bring proof of:
  • Age – like a driving license or passport
  • Your 1st vaccination card or NHS app

Mayday Community Pharmacy, Croydon

  • Location: 514 London Rd, London, Thornton Heath CR7 7HQ
  • Opening hours:
  • Pfizer and Oxford-AZ vaccine: 9.30am to 5pm, Monday 9 to Sunday 15 August 2021
  • Second doses will only be offered if it is at least eight weeks since the first dose.
  • Please bring proof of:
  • Age – like a driving license or passport
  • Your 1st vaccination card or NHS app

As increasing numbers of people in Croydon and across the UK get the vaccine, a government scientific adviser said recently that a Covid booster jab programme would vaccinate the elderly and health workers first, if it goes ahead.

On August 2 Professor Adam Finn, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), told BBC Radio 4’s PM that any booster programme is "provisional" at the moment.

He said: "We were asked to look at what a booster programme would look like if there did turn out to need to be one so that planning could be put in place.

"What we are doing at the moment is watching extremely carefully as the evidence comes in during the current wave to see whether there are people – and one would be particularly concerned about the people who got the vaccine earliest, that’s healthcare workers and the very elderly – in whom it looks like the protection they’ve got may be waning away to some extent."

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