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Article content Three Chatham-Kent pharmacies will be among the roughly 350 province-wide to start offering the AstraZeneca vaccine to people aged 55 and over. Two pharmacies in Chatham – Shoppers Drug Mart at 420 Queen St. and Rexall at 401 St. Clair Street – along with MacTavish Pharmacy at 480 St. George St. in Dresden were among the locations announced by the provincial government on April 1 for Phase 2 of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. They are the first pharmacies in Chatham-Kent being...

Article content Ottawa Public Health reported a record spike in COVID-19 cases Saturday as the city poured into the warm sunshine at the start of a 28-day lockdown gamely trying to keep us apart. The unit reported 240 additional confirmed cases, one new death and 44 people in hospital, including 14 in intensive care — those numbers, too, on the increase. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Daily COVID-19 cases set record as warm weather draws cong...

  The Region of Peel (Brampton, Mississauga and Caledon)—one of the hardest-hit COVID-19 hotspots in all of Canada—is officially being included in the provinces pharmacy vaccination pilot program On April 1, the province announced that its adding over 350 additional pharmacies and more primary care settings to its two ongoing vaccination programs. Previously, the pharmacy program was only available in Toronto, Kingston and Windsor.  According to the province, all of the newly included p...

Three Chatham-Kent pharmacies will be among the more 350 across the province to start offering the AstraZeneca vaccine to people aged 55 and over.

When it first launched, the pharmacy pilot included 325 locations in Toronto, Windsor-Essex and Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington. While it was initially for people aged aged 60 and over, that age range was dropped with the expansion announcement on Thursday.  The province says it expects the number of pharmacies in the program to reach 1,500 by the end of April.  To book an appointment with a participating pharmacy, you must be 55 years or older in 2021 and have a valid Onta...

KITCHENER -- Pharmacies in Waterloo Region are now booking appointments to administer COVID-19 vaccines. The province released an expanded list of pharmacies offering the AstraZeneca vaccine on Thursday. The age eligibility to 55. Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang said the province asked for input on which pharmacies to include in the next stage of rollout. "We did have input into the selection of pharmacies," Dr. Wang said at the regions COVID-19 briefing on Thursday morning. "One of the things we wanted ...

Dr. Eileen de Villa, Torontos medical officer of health, answers COVID-related questions

The world marked the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the COVID-19 crisis a pandemic on Thursday.

57 pharmacies in Windsor-Essex to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to people aged 60 to 64 Nearly five dozen pharmacies in Windsor-Essex will start booking COVID-19 vaccine appointments for people between the ages of 60 and 64 by the end of the week.  Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Mar 10, 2021 8:34 PM ET | Last Updated: March 11 Owner and pharmacist at Medica Pharmacy in Windsor, Francesco Vella, says hes ready to start putting vaccines in arms. His site is one of 57 approved in Windsor-Es...

Local experts expect COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Waterloo Region to speed up as more doses arrive.