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Community organizers are hoping to entice more than 1,000 people to get vaccinated this Saturday at a Caribbean carnival-themed pop-up clinic in North Etobicoke.
TORONTO Residents of the Tandridge Crescent community walked into their local school Monday and emerged with a shot of Pfizer in their arm and a DoorDash gift card in their hand. “Twenty-five dollars, that’s a lot of money,” said one young man, vowing to order Popeye’s chicken with the gift card he received as a vaccination incentive. The so-called micro-clinic was set up at Braeburn Junior School as part of the city’s Home Stretch Vaccine Push campaign, which is targeting specific neighbourhoods with low immunization rates. The northwest corner of Toronto is lagging behind the city’s vaccination averages, with 59 per cent of residents partially-vaccinated and only 36 per cent fully-vaccinated. City-wide, 60 per cent of adults have received two doses.
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Coun. Joe Cressy, chair of the Toronto Board of Health, confirmed on Sunday that 60 per cent of all adults in the city are now fully vaccinated. He says: The city of Toronto has surpassed 60 per cent of all adults having received two doses. It s a tremendous step, but we re not finished yet. We have more to do. (Lorenda Reddekopp/CBC)
TORONTO The Scarborough Vaccine Team staff at the Centennial College immunization clinic marked a milestone Saturday, celebrating the highest average of daily doses administered by a community vaccine clinic. The Progress Ave. site has administered an average of 1,497 COVID-19 vaccine doses a day since March 17, contributing to significant levels of protection in a region that was hard-hit by the virus. In April, 16 of 17 Scarborough postal codes were deemed COVID-19 hotspots; now, more than 70 per cent of adults in every Scarborough postal code have received at least their first dose of vaccine. “COVID-19 had a great impact on our residents in Scarborough, so we made a commitment that once the vaccination came about, we knew we had to vaccinate our population,” Scarborough Health Network’s Chief Nursing Executive Glynn Boatswain told CTV Toronto Saturday.