Walsall vaccination centre prepares to open up shop
Work is ploughing ahead on transforming Walsall's former TJ Hughes store into a vaccination centre.
While the chain’s name still hangs over the entrance in the Saddlers Centre,inside the unit could not look more different to its days as a discount department store as it is readied to play its part in the coronavirus fight.
The centre is set to begin delivering vaccines to its first patients from Monday February 15.
It follows other vaccine centres in the region such as the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley and Aldersley Leisure Village in Wolverhampton.
Two new mobile testing sites were set up in Walsall on Tuesday after someone in the WS2 area tested positive for the more contagious variant.
The man tested positive on December 19 but the local authority was not made aware of the results until last Thursday, January 28.
It has led to 10,300 people living in around the WS2 postcode of Walsall being tested for coronavirus, with door-to-door testing starting on Wednesday afternoon.
