SHOPPERS will be able to get a Covid vaccine while picking up their groceries at a Kendal supermarket this weekend.

In a bid to get more people vaccinated and tackle the spread of Covid, people will have the chance to get their Pfizer vaccine at the mobile vaccination unit at Morrisons car park on Sunday (June 27) between 9:30am and 7:30pm.

The bus, organised by Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group, will also be at The Gilpin Hotel and Lakehouse, Windermere, today between 4:30pm and 6:30pm.

And it will be at Braithwaite Fold Caravan Park, Bowness, on Saturday (June 26) between 8am and 12pm.

In preparation for a tourism boom in the Lakes this summer, the drive is targeting hospitality and leisure workers.

But anyone over 18 in the area is welcome to attend and vaccines are now all walk-in appointments.

Dr Ed Clarke, clinical director of the Kendal Primary Care Network (PCN), which is providing COVID vaccination on behalf of the practices in Kendal, said: “The COVID vaccination programme in Kendal is continuing and we are so glad for the support of our patients and the wider community in achieving such high levels of vaccination.

“There are some groups – particularly in the hospitality industry - that have struggled to get to appointments, and so we have been offered the mobile vaccination unit to try and ensure that as many people get vaccinated as possible.

“If you have not yet booked your first COVID vaccination, and live in the Kendal area, you can phone 01253956028 for a COVID vaccine at the mobile vaccination unit."

As of June 20, 75,987 people had been given a first dose of a Covid vaccine in South Lakeland.

And 60,312 people had received both doses of a Covid vaccine.