A MEDICAL centre in a village has been confirmed as a coronavirus vaccination site.

The next wave of locations for Primary Care Network vaccination sites have been confirmed for north Essex.

They will go live from next week and will vaccinated people according to the current priority schedule which includes health and care staff, and elderly vulnerable people aged 80 or over.

Constable Country Medical Centre, in East Bergholt, is the latest place locally to be confirmed as one of the vaccination sites.

The Fryatt Hospital, in Dovercourt, will also be running as a vaccine centre from Monday.

Vaccine centres which are already up and running in north Essex are in Clacton and Colchester.

Lisa Nobes, director of nursing at the Suffolk and North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Groups, said: “We are aligned with the government’s ambition to vaccinate as many people from those high priority groups as possible over the coming weeks.

“These vaccination centres are in addition to the work already underway to vaccinate care home residents and staff.

“This is a big effort collectively and the system is trying to manage this in the safest possible way.”