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Last Updated Apr 21, 2021 at 5:16 pm EDT
Visitors line up at a mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Parkway Forest Community Centre in Toronto on Monday, April 19, 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
A new program, with the same goal as always: to win the race against COVID-19 and the variants.
The City of Toronto is ramping up its efforts to get more residents living in hotspot communities vaccinated at a quicker pace, introducing a new mobile vaccination strategy with an aim to triple the amount of vaccine in those neighbourhoods.
At today’s COVID-19 briefing, Toronto mayor John Tory and medical officer of health Dr. Eileen de Villa elaborated on a “sprint strategy” with Toronto health sector partners, confirming that Toronto expects to start regularly receiving larger shipments of vaccine from the province.
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Published Wednesday, April 21, 2021 3:30PM EDT Toronto is launching a mobile vaccination program to triple the amount of COVID-19 vaccine administered in the city’s “hottest” hot spot zones over the next two weeks. Mayor John Tory announced on Wednesday that the city has partnered with Toronto Public Health, hospitals and community health centres to create a new mobile vaccination “sprint strategy” to administer incoming vaccine supply to the city’s highest priority areas. The city says it is expecting a regular boost in vaccine shipments from the province in the coming weeks and that the strategy will start next week.
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Toronto sees 1,074 new COVID-19 cases as 3rd wave rages on
Toronto reported 1,074 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday as residents 40 and up were officially allowed to register to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine at pharmacies.
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Residents of the Jane and Finch community, in northwest Toronto’s M3N area code, form a long line outside a temporary COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Driftwood Community Centre on Apr. 19, 2021.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Toronto reported 1,074 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday as residents 40 and up were officially allowed to register to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine at pharmacies.