From cathedrals to strip-clubs: Photos show the most unique vaccination centers around the world

A blue whale model with a bandaid on its fin hangs above a pop-up vaccination site at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, on April 23, 2021.Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

• Governments around the world have begun rolling out the biggest vaccine drive in history.
• They're transforming shopping malls, museums, and strip clubs into makeshift vaccination centers.
• Photos show some of the most unusual vaccination sites around the world.

As the world's largest vaccine drive is underway, governments are transforming public spaces into pop-up vaccination centers.

A Venice resident receives a coronavirus vaccine on board a traditional "vaporetto", a ferry normally used for public transportation in Venice, Italy, on April 5, 2021.      Manuel Silvestri/Reuters

In the UK, some people are getting their jabs in an 800-year-old cathedral while organ music plays in the background to help them relax.

People wait to receive the COVID-19 vaccine inside the Salisbury Cathedral, in Salisbury, Britain, on January 20, 2021.      Paul Childs/Reuters

Source: BBC

In typical London fashion, health officials have converted double-decker buses into mobile vaccination sites.

People queue outside a bus modified into a mobile COVID-19 vaccination centre in Thamesmead, London, Britain, on February 14, 2021.      Henry Nicholls/Reuters

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Transport hubs, in general, have become convenient locations to give people the COVID-19 vaccine.

People wait in a line to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at Grand Central Station Terminal train station in Manhattan, New York, on May 12, 2021.      Carlo Allegri/Reuters

In Thailand, people are queueing up at the airport, not to check in to a flight, but to get their COVID-19 shots instead.

People get vaccinated against the coronavirus at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 28, 2021.      Jorge Silva/Reuters

Health officials in Brazil are hoping to target more remote communities by offering the vaccine in little river boats.

Marair Queiroz receives the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID -19 vaccine from municipal health worker Neuda Sousa during a flood by the rising Solimoes river, one of the two main branches of the Amazon River, in Anama, Amazonas state, Brazil, on May 14, 2021.      Bruno Kelly/Reuters

Doctors are even reaching the most remote mountainous regions in the world to give people the vaccine.

A man receives the coronavirus vaccine next to a brandy pot still in the remote mountain village Ljevista, Kolasin Municipality, Montenegro, on May 10, 2021.      Stevo Vasiljevic/Reuters

In Kazakhstan, health officials have turned a food market...

An information banner placed outside the coronavirus vaccination center is on display at a food market in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on April 14, 2021.      Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters

...and a shopping mall into vaccination centers.

A visitor receives a dose of the QazCovid-in COVID vaccine in a vaccination center located at a shopping and entertainment mall in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on April 27, 2021.      Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters

New York City residents aged 18 and over can have the jab administered under the 94ft blue whale suspended from the ceiling of the Natural History Museum.

A blue whale model with a bandaid on its fin hangs above a pop-up vaccination site at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, on April 23, 2021.      Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

A bar in Tel Aviv has become an unusual vaccination site, offering COVID-19 jabs in exchange for a free drink.

A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccination as part of a Tel Aviv municipality initiative offering a free drink at a bar to residents getting the shot, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on February 18, 2021.      Corinna Kern/Reuters

Source: Sky News

In Serbia, a local diner is luring in customers by offering a free meal with their COVID-19 vaccine.

Customers have their meals at a restaurant where people are receiving doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID vaccine in Kragujevac, Serbia, on May 4, 2021.      Marko Djurica/Reuters

Source: Reuters

In Las Vegas, a mobile clinic will be opening up in front of a strip club where vaccinated customers will get perks including platinum membership cards and dances from "fully-vaccinated" dancers, the owners said.

The Hustler Club in Las Vegas will host a mobile vaccination site on its premises, which will take walk-ins from those aged over 21.      Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Source: Insider