An impression that the Covid pandemic is over is giving people the idea that they do not need to be vaccinated, according to a Nottinghamshire county councillor.
Councillor Steve Carr, Beeston North, said that noises coming out of Government were giving people that impression and it meant that already low vaccination rates in the Broxtowe area were not improving.
Mr Carr spoke at a meeting of the council's adult social care and public health committee and asked how he message to get vaccinated to be got out to people.
He said: "The Government thinks it's over, people think's over and quite clearly it is not over which is why we still have to be careful.
"The message is that people who have not had their first, second and third doses really need to do it.
Mr Carr had previously expressed concern that 14% of people, more than 10,000 people, had still not received their first vaccination, 19% their second jab and 35% had not had a boost third jab.
He said: “I can bet you the figures for Beeston North will be considerably higher than that. It is a worry. It is not for the want of trying that the figures are as they are.
"There have been problems with the vaccine bus. It was booked in three times and on two occasions it broke down and on the third it was late and some people had left before it got there."
Councillor David Martin, Selston, said he thought people were getting "Covid-weary" and not using Track and Trace any more.
"My son went to a football match and an anti-vaxxer went on the coach with them, without realising they had Covid and everyone on the bus caught it.
"The younger the residents are, the more disregarding they are of the system in place."
Jonathan Gribbin, Nottinghamshire director of public health, said that the NHS, responsible for the vaccine bus, was in the process of making alternative arrangements to deliver vaccinations to the area.
He added: "For so many people, thankfully it is a mild disease, and we only have to go to our hospitals to discover that sadly for some people the complications remain extremely serious.
"It is likely to be through a series of measure sin the months ahead, and not just vaccinations, that we learn to live safely with Covid."
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