Wolverhampton and Black Country MMR clinics to boost jab rate

The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination is given in two doses

A series of pop-up MMR vaccination clinics are to open across Wolverhampton and the Black Country amid a spike in measles cases.

The number of measles cases continue to rise across the West Midlands, with three quarters of all reported cases in England being in the region.

Children and all adults up to the age of 25 can attend.

Dr Mohit Mandiratta, a GP based in Halesowen, linked numbers to a "lack of vaccination".

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends a vaccination rate of about 95%, but the national average is 85% and in parts of the West Midlands, Dr Mandiratta said, even lower.

The first two clinics will take place on Saturday at Whitmore Reans Family Hub and in a van on Lower Hall Lane in Walsall.

There will then be a series of clinics in Stourbridge, West Bromwich, Brownhills, Bilston, Lye, Cradley Heath, Willenhall, Wolverhampton, Blakenall, Dudley, Walsall and Halesowen.

People are asked to make appointments before attending.