Maldwyn Leisure Centre to continue as vaccine hub
The Covid-19 vaccination programme in Powys has been one of the most successful in the whole of the UK with 91% of adults receiving their first dose and 88.8% receiving their second. These are the highest rates of any health board in Wales.
With the booster programme now in full flow, health officials have convinced leisure chiefs that the facility is still desperately required.
Adrian Osborne, programme director for Covid-19 vaccination in Powys, said: “Having a venue like Maldwyn Leisure Centre at the heart of the vaccination programme is absolutely critical.
“The vaccination programme has been heavily dependent on the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. At the start of the vaccination programme this vaccine arrived in trays of over 1,100 doses that needed to be used within four days.
“It was therefore vital that the county had venues like the leisure centre that could accommodate very large numbers of people for vaccination in a short space of time.
“Maldwyn Leisure Centre was the only venue in the north of the county that could offer us the capacity to deliver COVID-19 vaccination at large scale and at pace.”
Gwyn Owen from Freedom Leisure added that while supporting the programme was a priority he hoped that it would “help to continue our journey back to normality in 2022”.
Those eligible for a booster dose should receive their invitation between six and eight months after their second dose.
More information about COVID-19 vaccination in Powys is available from https://pthb.nhs.wales/covid-vaccine
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