Walk-in Covid vaccines for eligible patients at Watford town hall

First and second doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine are available to eligible patients.

The walk-ins are running from today (Thursday May 20) until Sunday May 23 and eligible patients can just turn up without having to book through the NHS.

Where is the vaccination centre?

The walk-ins are at Watford Town Hall in Watford town centre.

The full address is: Rickmansworth Road, Watford WD17 3EW although drivers access the site from Hempstead Road.

Who is eligible for a walk-in vaccine?

• Anyone aged above 40 or in a priority group who is yet to receive any dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
• Anyone who had the AstraZeneca vaccine eight or more weeks ago, and is yet to receive their second dose of the AstraZeneca

What type of people are in the priority groups?

• All those aged 50 or over
• Frontline health and social care workers
• People aged 16 or over who are known to be clinically extremely vulnerable or with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality
• People who care for someone who is at high risk from Covid-19
• People who live with someone who is immuno-suppressed

Who is ineligible for a walk-in vaccine?

• Anyone under the age of 40 and not part of a priority group
• Anyone who received the AstraZeneca less than 8 weeks ago
• Anyone who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine

When are walk-ins available?

Thursday May 20 + Friday May 21 between 3.30pm and 5.30pm on both days.

Saturday May 22 + Sunday May 23 between 8.30am and 3.30pm on both days.

Organisers at the vaccination centre are asking people to bring photo ID and proof of age. 

Watford mayor Peter Taylor received his second Covid vaccine at Watford town hall last Saturday. He got the first jab after he began volunteering at the vaccination centre

With news that the Indian variant of coronavirus has been identified in Watford and other parts of Hertfordshire, people are being urged to take the jab when the opportunity comes.

Hertfordshire's director of public health, Jim McManus, said this week: "It remains vital that you get the vaccine when you are eligible and when it is offered. Despite restrictions being eased, the virus and new variants are still circulating.

"It remains absolutely essential that we all keep doing the basics to prevent transmission of any variant of the virus, by wearing a face-covering when required, washing our hands regularly and social-distancing. Testing, as well as self-isolating if you are infected, remains crucial."

Hertfordshire County Council director of public health, Jim McManus

Meanwhile, people aged 34 and over can book their Covid-19 jab from today, the NHS in England has said.

More than one million people aged 34 and 35 are receiving text messages today or Friday asking them to come forward for their Covid vaccine, NHS England said.

The vaccination programme is expected to extend to people in their early thirties "over the next few days and weeks", it added.

More than seven in 10 adults in the UK have received their first Covid-19 vaccine, new figures show.

The Department of Health and Social Care said that health services across the UK had administered 57.8 million vaccines, including 36.9 million people with their first dose – or 70.2 per cent of the adult population.

Meanwhile, 20.8 million people – almost two-fifths (39.6 per cent) of the adult population – had received both doses.

As of May 13, just under 50,000 of Watford's adults have received a first dose of the Covid vaccine, and of those around 22,000 have had both doses.