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Christina Hecktus's five-year-old daughter Quin came home from school in March with a cough and a fever, and died days later. The Kitchener mother is now warning parents about the rare consequences of invasive Group A streptococcus, circulating in Ontario at the highest rates in a decade. 

Staff and volunteers from the Boardwalk vaccination clinic in Waterloo hugged each other and caught up at a celebration on Thursday morning, as the clinic prepares to shut down on Sunday.

The Region of Waterloo has announced its second largest mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic will close on June 12 after almost 16 months of operation.

The region's last mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic is set to close. The clinic, at The Boardwalk in Waterloo, will close on June 12.

The region's last mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic is set to close. The clinic at The Boardwalk in Waterloo will close on June 12.

Waterloos mass COVID-19 vaccination site will be shutting its doors next month.

The Region of Waterloo is ready to start administering second COVID-19 boosters to those aged 60 and older.

"The Omicron wave is behind us," Waterloo Regions associate medical officer of the health said during Fridays weekly briefing. Special school-based March break vaccination clinics were also highlighted at the meeting.

Dr. Rabia Bana, an associate medical officer of health for Region of Waterloo Public Health, says COVID-19 trends in Waterloo region are stable or improving. But she added it's 'expected and quite natural' for people to have different comfort levels with new regulations, like the lifting of masking.

Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic often kept people apart with lockdowns. But on the two-year anniversary of the first case in Waterloo region, officials say the experience brought people, businesses, health-care providers and governments together like never before.