00:00Returning from their Easter holidays, students in Canterbury are back on campus, welcomed by
00:06legions of NHS staff ready to deliver the second round of vaccinations, with the first student
00:12through the door bright and early at 8am. Honestly it was kind of one of the ones where I was
00:17quite
00:17nervous to get the first jab, I don't really like needles anyway and then once I had the first one
00:21and I'd bit the bullet I was like I just want to get the second one over and done with
00:24so
00:24when the booking form and stuff came out I kind of just went straight in and like booked as early
00:28as I could to just kind of get it over with and out of the way. Everyone wants to feel
00:31safe,
00:32everyone wants to enjoy the uni experience and I think this is like partly because of that like
00:36this is one of the reasons they can do that you know. Delivering the vaccine are staff from Kent
00:40Community Health NHS Foundation Trust who are usually tasked with administering vaccines in schools
00:46but today patients have booked in online. We've got 900 people booked in today to come in for their
00:52vaccine over the day and then obviously we're working over the weekend and we've also got our
00:56GP practices in Favshim and Ashford offering second doses as well. After the first vaccine students are
01:0230% protected and after today's jab that will jump up to 90%. Really important people come down for their
01:10second dose so yeah and we've got over four and a half thousand people booked so far on the system
01:14which means we get a steady flow through matching our capacity so shouldn't be any cues. Things here have
01:21returns to normal. The local bars and clubs have reopened including club chemistry where the outbreak
01:27is thought to have started. Previously we were towards the end of the last term when the outbreak
01:32happened and now that we've started term three there seems to be a lot more buzz on campus. Students are
01:38excited to be back and we've got a lot planned so it's much more settled in right now. Club chemistry
01:44is
01:44open and then we've got our own outlet on campus venue as well so that has been busy as well.
01:51Again
01:52that reassurance piece and that communication and how can you be safe how can it be contained what to
01:58avoid and there's no active cases so it's been really positive to see that and students seem to
02:03be engaging in quite a lot so it's really exciting and positive to see that. There have been no updates
02:09on any more meningitis cases in the county since the first of April with the total of 21 confirmed cases
02:16of the disease appearing to be the outbreak's peak and while the delivery of the second vaccination
02:21shows officials taking no chances with the University of Kent cohort questions still remain as to whether
02:28other young people up and down the country remain at risk without theirs. Chloe Brewster for KMTV in Canterbury.
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