Queen Margaret University has announced today thats has been selected as one of the first venues in Lothian for “Wave 2” of Scotland's mass COVID-19 vaccination programme, which is expected to begin in February 2021.
Through using a section of the University’s car park as a drive-through vaccination centre, it is expected that the site will be capable of vaccinating up to 8,000 people a week at around 12 vaccination stations.
QMU was identified by NHS Lothian along with the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) and the Pyramids Business Park (PBP) in West Lothian.
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Sir Paul Grice, Principal of the University said: ‘We are delighted to be able to play this part in the national effort to run the biggest mass vaccination programme ever undertaken.
"I am very grateful for the efforts of staff across the University to facilitate this, and to East Lothian Council for its support in putting the arrangements in place to allow it to happen.”
