People were queuing for hours in 'direct sun' today as hundreds waited for a monkeypox jab. One person 'collapsed' as lines snaked through a car park for the mass vaccination clinic.
A mass vaccination clinic against monkeypox took place today (Sunday, August 14) following concerns that the virus may spread at upcoming Manchester Pride events. The vaccination drive also comes as monkeypox cases have seen an uptick in recent weeks across the country, met with frustrations that London has vaccinated thousands of people already, while Manchester has seen piecemeal vaccine allocations in the hundreds.
But as people from across Greater Manchester were told to come down to the clinic, patients sounded alarm bells about the lengthy queues in the hot weather. Vaccines were all allocated within six hours of the clinic starting.
