The Parish Council has been asked to distribute the attached update within our local community.
Update on Covid vaccination in Sherborne and surrounding villages: Issued 28 January 2021.
We continue to push on with vaccination locally. We have vaccinated cohorts 1 and 2 successfully with a good uptake. We have commenced cohort 3 (aged 75 and over) and aim to mostly complete that cohort by administering another 860 vaccinations on Friday 29th January at the Digby Hall. It will be a busy day. If you have an appointment, please don’t arrive early as it causes congestion and reduces our ability to socially distance from each other. The next cohort to receive vaccination will be the over 70 age group and the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) otherwise known as Shielding patients (cohort 4).
We appreciate that for many of you who have received the vaccine already, that this was the first time you had been out for some time and that had some associated anxiety. This anxiety might be greater for those of you who are shielding. To that end we are going to hold an exclusive clinic for shielding or CEV patients on Saturday 6th February. The hall will not have been used for several days, staffing will be kept to a minimum and as usual, all staff will have had a negative Covid test on the day of the clinic. I hope this will reassure you that it will be safe to attend the Digby Hall for vaccination on that day.
We will receive 1200 vaccines next week which will allow us to vaccinate our CEV patients and the majority of those aged 70 and over. Please wait to be called by your surgery for an appointment.
It looks like numbers of positive cases are beginning to fall slowly but we still have 30-40 cases per week in Sherborne. So please continue to follow the rules. This is important for those of you who have received the vaccine as well as you will not yet have full immunity and it is not yet known whether you can pass on the virus. So please STAY AT HOME, PROTECT THE NHS AND SAVE LIVES.
Dr Rob Childs
Regards
Roger Marsh
Chair Patient Participation Group
The Grove Medical Centre