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TORONTO The Ontario government has released a list of 17 additional hospital sites that will receive doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine over the next two weeks. The first 6,000 doses of the vaccine received by the province were sent to Toronto’s University Health Network and The Ottawa Hospital earlier this week. So far more than 2,300 health-care workers have received their first dose of the vaccine at those two sites with more expected to be vaccinated in the coming weeks. The province, however, has planned a wider rollout for when it receives its next shipment of the vaccine. It says that a total of 17 additional hospital sites have been chosen to “to continue vaccinating health care workers and essential caregivers who work in hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes and other congregate settings caring for seniors.”
A COVID-19 immunization clinic is being opened in Barrie.
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) says the vaccine will be administered at the location to priority individuals pending its arrival. SMDHU says it will “soon” to distributed to the region.
The following are listed by the Health Unit as priority individuals:
Residents, staff, essential caregivers, and other employees of congregate living settings such as long-term care homes and retirement homes that provide care for seniors as they are at higher risk of infection and serious illness from COVID-19.
Health care workers, including hospital employees, other staff who work or study in hospitals, and other health care personnel.
Windsor Regional Hospital will be one of seventeen hospitals in Ontario to begin receiving doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the next two weeks, the province announced Friday.
Hospital officials say Windsor Regional will receive a “limited supply” of the vaccines but the exact number or the exact date for delivery is not yet known.
They say first group the Ontario government is focusing on vaccinating are employees who work at long term care and retirement Homes that are not in outbreak in Grey (lockdown) and red (control) regions in the province, including Windsor and-Essex.
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