00:00Chloe I can see students queuing up behind you for the vaccine what is the
00:03mid like there at the moment? Yes so as you say I'm stood at Sports Centre on
00:09University of Kent Canterbury campus students have been queuing here for a
00:13few hours now for vaccines there has been a lot of uncertainty I mean students
00:17in the queue are telling me that they're feeling a bit relieved that they're being
00:19offered the vaccine at the moment but there still is that fear kind of in the
00:22air the vaccine roll-up comes after Keir Starmer announced with Streeting
00:26sorry announced it in the in Parliament yesterday Keir Starmer also spoke today
00:31and reiterated the importance of anyone who visited Club Chemistry getting
00:35antibiotics and the calls for vaccinations to be rolled out we can hear a little
00:38bit more about what he said now our deepest condolences are with the
00:43families and friends of the two young people who've died following the
00:48outbreak of meningitis B in Kent others are seriously ill and this will be a
00:55deeply difficult time for their loved ones Mr. Speaker health experts are
00:59working to identify close contacts and distribute antibiotics and will begin a
01:03targeted vaccination program in the coming days and can I take this
01:07opportunity to ask anyone who attended Club Chemistry on March 5th 6th or 7th to
01:15come forward please to receive antibiotics okay so the Prime Minister they're
01:23talking earlier today Chloe it seemed he wasn't sure when the vaccines would start
01:27but that maybe changed this afternoon didn't it
01:31yeah so you hear him there he says that the rollout was going to be in the coming
01:35days but obviously I'm stood here there's queues upon queues of students
01:39waiting for their vaccines now as I say students heard about the vaccines at about
01:432 p.m today and they came down there are about 5,000 students that are being
01:47offered it it's only being offered to students who actually live on the campus here
01:51and I spoke to a few of those in the queue earlier on just to talk about how they
01:55feel about it and yeah going forward what they're going to be doing
02:00when you were told about the vaccines was it something you were happy about or not
02:06yes but yeah I hate needles but yes it's got to be done
02:10it's a better cause so yeah I think it's good they've done it moderately quickly as well I think
02:16we only got the antibiotics earlier as well so yeah obviously get it out of the way
02:22yeah it'd be nice and quick ready for the last bit of term we were waiting for like official
02:29statements to be made by the university and I don't know I feel like we had to make a lot
02:33of decisions ourselves before anything was really said by the uni and so I think in that
02:37regard it could have been done better when did you find out that you were going to get a
02:40vaccination today I found out 2 p.m today I think I checked my emails and I saw that they
02:48were giving out vaccines in the hall so yeah I'm quite happy about that
02:52do you feel safe on campus at the moment with this vaccine yeah I do vaccine antibiotics I feel
02:59much safer it went really well the nurse was very helpful and very kind talked you through
03:03everything answered all of my questions it was very useful how long was the process did you arrive
03:08quite early how long were you sort of queue well I arrived at about half past two so about an
03:17hour
03:18total not too long but the queue was a bit long so anyone who isn't a University of Kent a
03:27student
03:27living on campus they can still go and collect antibiotics the Senate building here is still open
03:31plus three more centres across Kent as a vaccines at the moment only those who've been contacted
03:39and students here as I as I say
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