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Museums, churches, malls: Unusual vaccination venues

May 25, 2021 08:13 IST

The distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine is underway across the world.

To provide a convenient and safe place for people to receive COVID-19 vaccines, countries around the world transform shopping malls, churches, airports, subway stations and museums to vaccination centers. Some also offer vaccination services on the river and mountain.

A blue whale model hangs with a band aid on its fin above a pop up vaccination site at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, United States of America. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
 

A woman receives a vaccination against the coronavirus disease as part of a Tel Aviv municipality initiative offering a free drink at a bar to residents getting the shot, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Photograph: Corinna Kern/Reuters

A visitor receives a dose of the QazCovid-in vaccine in a vaccination centre located at a shopping and entertainment mall in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Photograph: Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters

People get vaccinated at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters

MTA security contractor Janet Santiago reacts after she received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for the coronavirus disease during the opening of MTA's public vaccination program at the Coney Island subway station in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

People wait to receive COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre inside the Salisbury Cathedral, in Salisbury, Britain. Photograph: Paul Childs/Reuters

A man receives the COVID-19 vaccine next to a brandy pot still in the remote mountain village Ljevista, Kolasin municipality, Montenegro. Photograph: Stevo Vasiljevic/Reuters

A rice mill worker receives a dose of COVISHIELD, a coronavirus disease vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, during a COVID-19 vaccination drive at Bavla village on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

France's national cycling team trains as people wait to get a dose of the "Comirnaty" Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as part of the coronavirus disease vaccination campaign at the indoor Velodrome National of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Customers have their meals at a restaurant where people are receiving doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine against the coronavirus disease in Kragujevac, Serbia. Photograph: Marko Djurica/Reuters
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