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Newbridge Leisure Centre will open as a walk-in coronavirus vaccination centre on Saturday, July 3.

The leisure centre will be open between 8.30am and 1.30pm for anyone aged 18 or over who has not yet had their first vaccine dose.

It will be open to people living within Caerphilly County Borough, as well as Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen, Newport and Monmouthshire, providing they bring photo ID.

Attendees won’t need to pre-book.

The leisure centre has been used as a vaccination centre since the end of January, taking over from Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Ty Penallta headquarters in Tredomen, which was used as a vaccination centre at the beginning of the year.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended the use of booster vaccines from September, to boost immunity as we head into the winter months.

Who has been vaccinated so far?

The percentage of people in Wales who have received their first and second vaccine is broken down below:

Care home residents: 98.1% first dose; 94.3% second dose

Care home workers: 92.7% first dose; 87.1% second dose

Healthcare workers: 96% first dose; 91.8% second dose

Social care workers: 45,553 first dose; 44,191 second dose

Aged 80 and above: 96% first dose; 93.8% second dose

Aged 75-79: 96.8% first dose; 95.2% second dose

Aged 70-74: 96.1% first dose; 94.9% second dose

Clinically extremely vulnerable people aged 16-69 : 94.5% first dose; 91.2% second dose

Aged 65-69: 94.8% first dose; 92.7% second dose

Clinical risk groups aged 16 to 64: 89% first dose; 81% second dose

Aged 60-64: 93.1% first dose; 90% second dose

Aged 55-59: 91.2% first dose; 86.8% second dose

Aged 50-54: 89.1% first dose; 82.2% second dose

Aged 40-49: 83.4% first dose; 59.2% second dose

Aged 30-39: 74.2% first dose; 30.2% second dose

Aged 18-29: 71.4% first dose; 18.3% second dose

Source: Public Health Wales