Now I’ve heard of some daft reasons that people have come up with for breaching lockdown – but this really does have to take the biscuit.
Essex Police in Rochford say they have had “cause to speak with” a number of men, all aged over 30, after they were spotted “catching Pokemon” across the district.
The smash hit game, with more than one billion downloads worldwide, involves players tracking down and catching Pokemon characters such as Jigglypuff and Pikachu by using the app on their mobile phones scouring the streets for them.
However as part of lockdown rules, you are allowed to exercise alone in an outdoor space, but it’s not been reported if the men were acting singly or in groups.
Meanwhile the vaccination programme appears to be gathering speed and there appears to be good news if you’re on the look out for a COVID vaccination as you may soon be able to pick one up in AZDA.
Who knows you may be able to get two when you buy a case of wine, or two for the price of one!
According to the supermarket giant, it will be transforming its George section at the store into its new vaccination centre.
It will be open from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week, and will have the ability to offer 250 jabs each day.
Those in the priority list will be given an appointment through the NHS and people are told not to contact the store directly about booking.
Meanwhile a nurse who wished to remain anonymous who’s working at one of the hospitals in West London said: “Loads of people are not keeping the appointments their GPs have made for them.
“The trouble is the vaccine has to be given or it has to be thrown away. On Thursday night we had something like 45 people who were booked for jabs but didn’t turn up, and didn’t let us or their GP know in advance.
Had we known they weren’t coming, someone else could have been slotted in in their place.
We were left hanging around, and then when they didn’t show up, we were faced with the choice of throwing the vaccine away or trying to get it into someone’s arm.”
She went on: “I rang some friends and said ‘How quickly can you drop everything and get here?’
Other staff were doing the same. Some people we rang were able to come in at short notice and they had the vaccine, but a lot of it had to be thrown away because we can’t keep it beyond a certain time.”
Well I’m getting mine tomorrow so let’s see what happens.
I’ll see you again later this week,
Scott
