Vulnerable people urged to get Covid vaccination

Vaccines are available at pharmacies, GP practices and some drop-in vaccination centres

Vulnerable people in Shropshire are being urged to get their spring Covid-19 vaccination before the end of June.

Shropshire Community Health NHS trust has introduced joint appointments to enable two people to get vaccinated at the same time.

People with a weakened immune system and those aged 75 and over are among the individuals the trust has called on to get the jab.

Vaccines are available at pharmacies, GP practices and some drop-in vaccination centres.

Steve Ellis, director of Covid vaccinations at the trust, said the disease has not gone away.

Mr Ellis said he expected a combined flu and Covid jab to be introduced soon.

"The spring campaign, I suspect, will ween out over the next couple of years," he added.

"I know there are combined flu and Covid vaccines being developed by a couple of manufacturers.

"We're expecting those to become available probably in the next year. I think it will become a regular autumn campaign in the same way flu is."