Covid vaccination centre being set up in Walsall's former TJ Hughes store
A new Covid vaccination centre is being set up in the former TJ Hughes store in Walsall's Saddlers shopping centre.
The site is set to open on February 15 and it is hoped it will provide 3,600 vaccinations a day.
It comes after vaccinations began at Aldersley Leisure Village on Monday and The Black Country Living Museum opened as a mass vaccination hub last month.
But fears have been raised about the effectiveness of the vaccine against the South African variant of coronavirus which has now been in the Black Country for more than six weeks.
Two new mobile testing sites were set up in Walsall on Tuesday, after someone in the WS2 area tested positive for the more contagious variant.
It is one of 11 cases of the variant in the UK that have no known links to travel or previous cases - prompting concerns that the variant is spreading among communities just as infection rates had started to fall.
Councillor Stephen Craddock, portfolio holder for health and wellbeing in Walsall, said the person who tested positive for the variant initially tested positive on December 19.
