Frontline NHS staff were given their Covid-19 jabs alongside pensioners in the latest mass vaccination centre to open its doors on Tuesday.
A nurse who had come from a shift with coronavirus victims on a local ward said: "I am doing this to protect myself but also my patients." Health and social care staff were among the first to arrive at the NHS Nightingale Hospital in Washington, Tyne and Wear.
It has a bus service which has been specifically introduced for patients and good road links. By next week, they expect to be vaccinating up to 1,000 patients a day.
The huge airport hangar-like building has been divided up into cubicles to administer the Oxford Zeneca vaccine. Rows of needles were lined up as the Mirror watched Army Medical