JUDGE Rinder has delivered his verdict that our vaccine volunteers are “amazing”.
The TV presenter, real name Rob, was also impressed with Dr Nuyen Raju, who convinced a sceptical patient that the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab is safe.
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Rob visited the Vaccine Bus in Greenwich, South East London, which travels around the borough to people who cannot or will not travel to traditional clinics for their jab.
He said: “I often meet interesting people as part of my job — today I met amazing people.
“I met someone who’s a little bit sort sceptical, and had his questions answered by an amazing doctor.”
Staff in the bright blue vaccine bus can administer up to 150 jabs a day.
And the area’s ten per cent uptake rise in the African and Caribbean communities and a similar increase within the Asian community has been attributed to it.
Rob, 42, who has had both jabs and urged everyone to have theirs, added: “One of the challenges of uptake is, of course, people having to go to vaccination centres and that’s been quite a problem especially reaching out to communities where there’s slow uptake.
“So, the NHS have come up with an innovative solution, which is to bring the vaccination centre to the people.
“And it’s an amazing, innovative response.
“It is the absolute best of what the NHS is.”
Volunteer Joanne Marshall said: “Volunteering has made it worth getting up in the morning. I absolutely love it.”
Greenwich’s chief medical officer Dr Raju said: “It’s like anything, nothing can work without all the pieces of the puzzle, and the volunteers have been a very, very important piece of ours.
“Without their dedication, without their commitment, without their interest and enthusiasm, it’d be very, very hard to achieve what we are doing.”
A HOST of celebs and politicians threw their weight behind Jabs Army as they praised kind-hearted Sun readers who signed up.
Their calls were led by Boris Johnson, who begged for volunteers to help ‘return the country to normal life’.
The PM wrote personally to our readers, saying: “The Sun’s Jabs Army campaign is a brilliant example of the power of collective action.
“It has already inspired companies and workplaces up and down the country to join the call to arms.
“So today, I call on everyone who has the time to join the legions of volunteers already signed up and to boost volunteer numbers further still.”
Jeremy Clarkson urged Brits to get off the sofa and sign up to beat the lockdown blues.
He said: “Everyone is saying how bored they are. They’ve watched Netflix, gone through everything on the internet, read Google.
“Well let’s not be bored — let’s get off our bottoms and volunteer.”
His call was backed by a string of other celebs – including the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, who hailed our campaign as “fantastic”.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock saluted Jabs Army as he addressed the nation in a No10 press briefing.
He said: “Come and be a part of it. The Sun’s Jabs Army is marching and helping the nation.”
GMB host Piers Morgan branded the campaign as “excellent”.
While celebrities like Bear Grylls, Gordon Ramsay and Bake Off’s Matt Lucas have also thrown their support behind the campaign.
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