Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox "If I get there just after it opens then the queues should be fine", I told my editor as I left my desk to head to a walk-in Covid vaccination centre.
The pop-up clinic opened at 9am this morning at The Powerhouse in Moss Side. It was offering the Pfizer vaccine to all over-18s in 20 south Manchester postcodes.
GPs sent out texts to residents in some of the postcodes, including mine, to invite them to the clinic in a bid to prevent a rise in positive cases.
No appointment was needed, and being 25 with no set date of when I'd get my official invite for the jab, I thought I'd give it a go.
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