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COVID-19 Stakeholder and Influencer Toolkit Overview

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Key messages● More than 80 percent of people in the UK, aged over 16, have had two doses of

a vaccine. Please encourage those not vaccinated to get a jab.● Encourage people to continue to use the NHS COVID-19 App. ● Maintain key safety behaviours such as fresh air, testing, face coverings, using

the NHS COVID-19 App, and hand washing.

This week we reached a positive milestone as more than 80% of people aged 16 and over in the UK have now received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Data from Public Health England and Cambridge University shows that vaccines have saved more than 105,000 lives and prevented 143,600 hospital admissions.

Children aged 12 to 15 who are clinically vulnerable or who live with adults who are at increased risk of serious illness from the virus are now being invited to come forward for their COVID -19 vaccine.

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COVID-19 Stakeholder and Influencer Toolkit Vaccines

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A total of 43,535,098 people have received two doses (80.1%) and 48,292,811 people have received one dose (88.8%).

More than half of all teenagers aged 16 and 17 in England have already received their jab, just over four weeks after the green light was given for this age group to be offered the vaccine.

The Government is working closely with the NHS to make it as easy as possible to get a vaccine, so all people aged 16 and over, in England, can now find their nearest centre through the ‘grab a jab’ NHS online walk-in finder.

How you can help

● Let your networks know all adults can now book a vaccine.

● Signpost 16 and 17 year olds to ‘grab a jab’ here

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COVID-19 Stakeholder and Influencer Toolkit Countering vaccine disinformation

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How you can helpShare the videos on this page with your networks on your social media channels, from top left clockwise:

● BBC videos on Long Covid in five South Asian languages: Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil and Sylheti.

● Actor Jason Forbes tackles some myths about the vaccine.

● Dr Nighat Arif talking about vaccines and immunosuppression.

● Dr Bnar Talabani, a scientist and doctor specialising in kidney and transplant medicine, challenging common myths about vaccines.

Click on the images for the links.

COVID-19 Stakeholder and Influencer Toolkit Safe behaviours

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How you can help● Use the images, to the right, on your social media

channels or send them out via your WhatsApp or other channels.

● Download assets from the Public Health England Resource Centre to help with COVID-19 messages.

Together, we can all help stop the spread of COVID-19 by following safe behaviours.

These include letting fresh air in, testing regularly, using face coverings in crowded indoor places, using the COVID-19 NHS App and regular hand washing.

Information and assets are available in community languages.

COVID-19 Stakeholder and Influencer Toolkit Safe behaviours - social assets

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How you can help

● Use these posters to explain safe behaviour with Polish and Yiddish speaking communities on your social media channels, or share them on WhatsApp and other channels.

● Use the same posters in other languages from the Public Health England Resource Centre to help people know the COVID-19 actions and behaviours.

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COVID-19 Stakeholder and Influencer Toolkit Back to School

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There is advice for parents as pupils return to schools on gov.uk/backtoschool.

Students should continue to take a twice weekly COVID-19 test at home

How you can help

● Post a film by pupils at the Jewellery Quarter Academy school about the importance of regular testing to your social media networks.

● Share a link to guidance for parents with your networks.

COVID-19 Stakeholder and Influencer Toolkit Testing

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How you can help● Use the images on this page to

encourage people to keep testing.● Post a link to guides on how to do a

rapid lateral flow test in different formats and languages to your networks.

One in three people who catch COVID-19 will not show any symptoms. It is important we keep testing to protect ourselves, the people we love, and our communities. People with symptoms should book a laboratory test called a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.