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WINDSOR, ONT. Local paramedics have started visiting the homes of vulnerable residents to administer COVID-19 vaccines for those unable to travel to the region’s mass vaccination clinics. Paramedics with the Essex-Windsor EMS Vulnerable Patient Navigator (VPN) team vaccinated 44 residents of an apartment building on Thursday. These residents are 80 years and older and have pre-registered for the vaccination clinics but who would have experienced difficulty accessing the sites. The residents received their first Moderna vaccine dose and will be scheduled to receive their second. The VPN team will continue to vaccinate eligible residents in the same apartment building and will then move on to another.
The Windsor Essex County Health Unit is reminding residents 80 years and older to continue to use the local pre-registration form to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
The Ontario government launched its province-wide vaccine registration platform on Monday for regions where no local booking system was already in place.