Camden Council leader Georgia Gould

ALL of Camden’s care home residents have had a Covid-19 vaccination, the Town Hall’s leader said last night (Monday).

Health chiefs from North Central London – the body in charge of administering the vaccination programme across five boroughs – have been unable to provide a number of how many people have had the injection so far.

But council leader Councillor Georgia Gould told an all-member meeting: “All of the care home residents in Camden have been vaccinated and that’s the result of the work that our adult community services have been doing to have access to our care homes and we’ve also been working with other elderly people in sheltered accommodation.”

She added: “I’ve just written to every resident about the vaccination making sure that they have key messages. It’s going through people’s doors at the moment.”

GP surgeries are helping to administer vaccines, while new centres have been set up at the Rec Club in Hampstead and the Francis Crick Institute in Somers Town. In a tweet to the New Journal last week, Dr Alex Warner from the Caversham Group. Practice in Kentish Town said that more than 16,000 people in Camden had been given a vaccine injection.

That figure is rising every day with government is aiming to give a first jab to more than 13 million people in priority groups – including all over 80s – by the middle of next month.

Cllr Gould told last night’s meeting: “I visited the Peckwater vaccination centre [also in Kentish Town] on Friday and it was genuinely one of the most joyful things I’ve experienced for a long time: Just seeing people come by car and mobility scooters – and walking through – from different parts of our community.”