{"id":137914,"date":"2025-09-12T06:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137914\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:03:07","slug":"appeal-for-people-to-have-winter-vaccine-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137914\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for people to have winter vaccine jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eligible people in Wolverhampton are being invited to come forward for their winter vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The NHS vaccination programmes started earlier this month and residents are being advised to get flu and Covid-19 vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Flu vaccines are available for all children, pregnant women, people aged 65 and over and people and frontline health and social care staff, and, from 1 October, Covid-19 jabs will be available to people aged 75 and over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Vaccines remain our best protection against flu, Covid-19, and other seasonal illnesses,&#8221; councillor Obaida Ahmed, cabinet member for health, wellbeing and community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dr Sally Roberts, chief nurse for the Black Country Integrated Care Board (ICB), said people can be hospitalised from the viruses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We want to make it as easy as possible for people to get protected, whether that&#8217;s at their GP, a pharmacy, a school clinic, or a specially arranged community session.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow BBC Wolverhampton &amp; Black Country on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjf1dh?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBC Sounds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BBC Sounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCBlackCountry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bbcwm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcwm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More on this storyRelated internet links<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eligible people in Wolverhampton are being invited to come forward for their winter vaccinations. The NHS vaccination programmes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,74649,84,58359,74647,13359,74648],"class_list":["post-137914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-flu-vaccines","tag-health","tag-pregnant-women","tag-sally-roberts","tag-vaccinations","tag-wolverhampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}