SALT Hill Activity Centre will soon cease to be a vaccination hub, Slough Borough Council has announced.
After this Friday (August 26), the Covid vaccination centre on Bath Road will be closed and reverted back to its original use. There will be two new GP led vaccination sites from early September but anyone eligible can still book into any vaccination site via the national booking system.
Salt Hill Activity Centre was one of just 10 sites across the country to become a mass vaccination centre in January 2021.
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People aged 80 or over who live up to a 45-minute drive from the centre were offered a jab when it first opened. It later opened up to the wider cohorts following government announcements later into 2021.
The government announced a fourth jab – produced by Moderna – will be offered to the other 50s, care home staff, carers aged 16 to 49, frontline health and social workers, and people aged five to 49 with health conditions this autumn.
The council said it has heard of no other plan to reuse the site in the near future.
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According to Berkshire Public Health, Slough is still ‘significantly lower’ compared to the South East and England when it comes to the vaccination rate.
Nearly 50 per cent of Slough’s population (67,575), has been fully vaccinated as of July 24, 2022.
The council added that its contractor, Everyone Active, will be working to get the building back to an activity centre ‘as quickly as possible,’ but could not reveal a set reopening date.
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