THE first 24/7 Covid vaccine clinics will open today alongside hubs in mosques and cinemas.
University Hospitals Birmingham and Sherwood Forest Hospitals in Nottingham will be the first areas to pilot round-the-clock jabs.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised 24/7 vaccine hubs across Britain “as soon as we can”.
If the pilot scheme is successful, then a network of similar centres will be opened up across the UK.
A mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire have also started offering vaccines to vulnerable people.
They will be part of hundreds of pharmacies and local sites targeting hard-to-reach Brits.
By the start of next week, 67 chemists will be offering the vaccine as numbers continue to scale up.
Jabs are already available from over 1,000 GP-led services, more than 200 hospitals and 17 mass immunisation centres.
Three cathedrals – Salisbury, Blackburn and Lichfield – are among the sites helping to deliver the vaccination blitz.
DEADLY TOLL
Hopes of beating Covid mounted last night with record numbers jabbed against the virus – but there were also prayers for the families of the record 1,820 announced to have died yesterday.
But in a sign the tide is slowly turning, more than 343,000 people were immunised on Tuesday – up nearly 20,000 on the previous record.
With 4.6m vaccinations already done, Boris Johnson said Britain remains firmly on course to offer jabs to the nation’s 15m most vulnerable within weeks.
The Prime Minister said “the light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccinations up”.
But he also warned of the fatalities that “there will be more to come” in “tough weeks ahead”.
