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Last Updated Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:40AM EDT The head of Toronto’s COVID-19 emergency response said Monday that younger residents living in hot spot neighbourhoods will not be getting an invite to attend mass immunization sites for now. “The eligibility that the province extended to those between 18 and 49 years old was and is limited to taking part in mobile and pop-up clinics that are launched specifically in high-risk neighborhoods,” Chief Mathew Pegg said. “The province did not make the vaccine available by other means including through city-operated vaccine clinics to that age category yet.” Speaking at a news conference, Pegg conceded that there has been some confusion around how the younger age group in hot spot areas can access vaccines.
A member of the province's vaccine distribution task force is trying to clear up confusion among some people aged 18 to 49 in hot-spot neighbourhoods about how to get immunized against COVID-19.
OTTAWA Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott is denying politics was behind the decision to label a part of western Ottawa a COVID-19 hot spot,” despite data showing the rate of infections in the area is lower than other parts of the city. Last week, Ontario named three forward sortation areas (FSAs) the first three digits of a postal code as hot spots in Ottawa: K1T, K1V, and K2V. While K1T and K1V contain several neighbourhoods previously identified by Ottawa Public Health as priority areas for vaccines, none of OPH s priority neighbourhoods are in the K2V FSA.
Last Updated Tuesday, April 13, 2021 1:41PM EDT Approximately 15,000 people aged 18 and older are expected to be vaccinated at a new pop-up clinic in North Etobicoke over the next three weeks. A large pop-up immunization clinic has been set up at BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, located near Finch Avenue and Highway 427 in North Etobicoke, where staff will begin inoculating residents in the community starting this week. The clinic, which will be hosted in partnership with BAPs Charities, William Osler Health System, and Toronto Public Health, is open to all residents 18 and older in the M9R, M9W, M9V, L4T, and L6S postal codes.