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Buhari’s COVID-19 jail threat: States list enforcement obstacles as Nigerians shun compliance Kindly share this story: File copy: State governors, President Muhammadu Buhari at the inauguration of NEC at the Presidential Villa in June... Published 9 February 2021 State governments on Monday explained obstacles to the enforcement of COVID-19 Health Protection Regulation 2021, which was signed by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on January 27. Our correspondents, who monito...

Seniors can call 211 for live, phone-based vaccination assistance

Barnstable County Fairgrounds will open as a COVID-19 vaccination clinic Wednesday, February 3, by appointment only. Appointments at the clinic are fully booked for all 600 doses it has received of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine doses will go to those who got appointments on the state’s registration platform, PrepMod, when it debuted on the site earlier this week. Town and county officials collaborated over the month of January to prepare a vaccine clinic at the fairgrounds ...

State Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, said hundreds of older Cape Codders do not have access to the internet or computer services that are currently required to book vaccination appointments on the state’s scheduling system. But now Cape officials know how to contact many of them and offer assistance, Cyr said during a Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force press teleconference Thursday morning. The individuals came to light during a Wednesday night robocall briefing put on by the task force for Ba...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Task force will robocall 50,000 Cape Codders over 65 with vaccine news [Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.] Feb. 2—The Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force has scheduled a Wednesday phone briefing for Cape Codders over 65 to discuss vaccination access. The call comes in response to mounting concerns about the phase two rollout. The task force also said residents can now sign up for email notifications (see below) to receive 24-hour advance notice when a Barnstable Co...

HYANNIS – Diane and Lucien Poyant of Hyannisport didn’t know there was a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on the grounds of the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis until they drove past it Monday. After calling a number at Cape Cod Healthcare, which is hosting the clinic, they got an appointment for Tuesday morning and joined a long line of cars snaking down Scudder Avenue past the West End Rotary. The Poyants, both 83, said they were thrilled and relieved to stumble upon the opportunity to get thei...

By Cynthia McCormick Cape Cod Times The Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force has scheduled a Wednesday phone briefing for Cape Codders over 65 to discuss vaccination access. The call comes in response to mounting concerns about the phase two rollout. The task force also said residents can now sign up for email notifications (see below) to receive 24-hour advance notice when a Barnstable County COVID-19 clinic is opening for registration. "The phone briefing will be held through a phone confer...

Photo:  The Ontario government is proposing changes to sexual violence policies at post-secondary schools across the province that could provide greater protection to students.  “It was promising to see that the Provincial government is proposing several changes to Ontario Regulation 131/16 based directly from Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) advocacy and recommendations,” Alexia Henriques, AMS vice-president (student affairs), told  The Journal.  The Ontario Regulation 131...

Some claim NYS pushed aside a previously developed vaccine distribution model involving counties that apparently worked for a previous serious flu outbreak - H1N1.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. So few staffers at one Queens nursing home have opted to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, that the facility on Tuesday warned its workers to get their shots now — or wait their turn like everyone else. Across the Empire State, vaccines have been administered to only about 44 percent of all employees at long-term care facilities, according to state officials. But at the Holliswood Center for Rehabilitation and Healthc...