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Bosses concerned over three weeks of 'poor' Covid-19 vaccines supply in Tameside

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direct to your inboxChiefs in Tameside say they have received a ‘poor supply’ of Covid-19 vaccines for three weeks, which has led to slower numbers of the most vulnerable residents receiving the jab.Tameside council – part of the Tameside and Glossop strategic commission – says that while the national vaccination centre at the Etihad has been able to start offering the vaccine to younger, less ‘at-risk’ people, they are struggling to get enough for high risk groups.But an NHS spokesperson said the confirmed supply of vaccines ‘varies every week’.The local authority has already vaccinated around 90pc the top four priority groups – care home residents; frontline health and social care workers; those over 70 and the clinically vulnerable.A.

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