"We can start to hope" - Inside Manchester's new mass vaccination centre
direct to your inboxThe mass vaccination of thousands of people in Greater Manchester is now underway.Indoor tennis courts built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester have been repurposed to help protect as many people as possible from coronavirus.The Tennis and Football Centre at the Etihad campus is now the region's mass vaccination centre and on Monday NHS vaccinators welcomed their first patients.Patricia Smethurst, 81, was among those queuing patiently for their Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs."I've been out the house eight times since last March," says the great-grandmother, who travelled from Middleton Junction for her appointment."I'm very, very glad to have had the vaccine today..