Coronavirus: Second vaccination centre to open in Eastbourne

Eastbourne council has confirmed the Welcome Building – between the Congress Theatre and Winter Garden – will be used as a much needed vaccination hub for patients invited to get the Covid-19 jab.

The news comes as the Sovereign Centre’s sports hall opened as a clinic at the weekend.

Eastbourne council leader David Tutt said, “We now have several vaccination centres with the Sovereign Centre open and the Welcome building at Devonshire Park being setup.

“Therefore, providing supplies of vaccines are available, local people should not need to travel too far for their injections.

“Being vaccinated is an important step forward in fighting the virus, but not a licence to ignore the restrictions.

“Firstly, it takes several weeks for the antibodies to build-up and secondly, you could possibly still be a carrier of the virus and pass it onto others.”