For the latest Rochdale news sign up to the MyRochdale newsletter here Rochdale is to ramp up vaccination programme over the weekend in a bid to increase take-up and halt the spread of the virus.
Extra walk-in clinics are being put in place across the borough and there will also be a drive-thru site at Rochdale Football Club.
More than 16,000 residents in the highest priority groups have been offered the jab but are stilll to have their first dose.
Now they - and all over-18s - are being encouraged to come forward so they are protected from the new variants spreading in some areas of the country.
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