NHS staff and volunteers have been busy welcoming patients aged over 80 for their first dose of the potentially life-saving jab. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA WireNHS staff and volunteers have been busy welcoming patients aged over 80 for their first dose of the potentially life-saving jab. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
NHS staff and volunteers have been busy welcoming patients aged over 80 for their first dose of the potentially life-saving jab. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

These are the scenes inside Lancashire's biggest vaccination centre at Blackburn Cathedral

Lancashire's mass vaccination programme is well under way with the opening of the county's biggest vaccination centre at Blackburn Cathedral.

The new facility based in the cathedral Crypt can accommodate eight patients at any one time, and it is hoped around 1,700 people will be vaccinated each week.

The first patients received their Covid-19 jabs on Monday (January 18) when it opened its doors to become the latest large-scale vaccine centre in the UK.

The use of the cathedral has been greeted as a huge boost to Lancashire's vaccine roll-out, with thousands of people within a 45-minute drive of Blackburn to be invited for their vaccine at the site in the coming weeks.

Below are pictures from inside the cathedral, where NHS staff and volunteers have been busy administering the potentially life-saving jab to patients aged 80 and over.

You can read more on the Blackburn Cathedral vaccination centre and how jabs will be rolled out here.

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