Longer hours for Shrewsbury's Covid vaccine walk-in clinic as Christmas times are confirmed

The walk-in clinic at Shropshire Local, in the Darwin Shopping Centre, will have extended opening hours to support the Covid-19 booster campaign.

Shropshire Council has been working with NHS partners to extend the opening hours and help offer booster jabs and vaccinations to 160,000 people by the end of December 2021.

The clinic, based at the council’s Shropshire Local store on the top floor of the centre, will be opening on the following dates:

• Monday, December 20: 10am - 6.30pm

• Tuesday, December 21: 10am - 6.30pm

• Wednesday, December 22: 10am - 6.30pm

• Thursday, December 23: 10am - 6.30pm

• Friday, December 24: 10am - 4pm

• Saturday, December 25: Closed

• Sunday, December 26: Closed (shopping centre will be open)

• Monday, December 27: 10am - 4pm

• Tuesday, December 28: 10am - 4pm

• Wednesday, December 29: 10am - 4pm

• Thursday, December 30: 10am - 4pm

• Friday, December 31: 10am - 3pm

• Saturday, January 1: Closed

• Sunday, January 2: 11am - 3pm

• Monday, January 3: 10am - 4pm

• Tuesday, January 4: 10am - 4pm

• Wednesday, January 5: 10am - 4pm

• Thursday, January 6: 10am - 4pm

• Friday, January 7: 10am - 4pm

• Saturday, January 8: 10am - 4pm

• Sunday, January 9: 10am - 4pm

Rachel Robinson, Shropshire Council’s director of public health, said: “Every adult in the country now needs to get a COVID-19 booster vaccine, because two vaccine doses alone will not give you enough protection against the Omicron variant.

“This is why we’re open 7 days a week at the walk-in facility at the Darwin Shopping Centre in Shrewsbury, and this will be followed by increased opening at other locations and mobile units across the county in due course.

“Please do get your booster jab and do continue to take all necessary precautions to help stop the spread of the virus.”

Shropshire Council's public health team have urged residents to get their booster jabs – and first and second doses if they have not done so already.

Around 160,000 people in Shropshire, and Telford and Wrekin, will need booster jabs in under three weeks over the Christmas and New Year holiday period.

The council continues to work with and support the NHS to increase capacity, by providing more locations and extended opening hours at walk-in and pop-up vaccination centres to offer lifesaving jabs in every community across the county.