direct to your inbox When staff at the Everest Pharmacy in Whalley Range were asked to work extra hours to help with the Covid-19 vaccination programme, they didn't question it.
Many of them have agreed to work long 12-hour days, seven days a week, to ensure vulnerable people in their local community are protected against the virus.The issue the new vaccine centre is facing isn't staff numbers or resources - it's the lack of slots being filled by those eligible for the AstraZeneca jab.Owner of Everest Pharmacy, Waqqass Sheikh, and his staff have the capacity to vaccinate 2,000 people a week.But since the facility opened last Thursday (January 21), his team are on track to immunise fewer than 1,000 people.Waqqass believes this is largely due.