Mar. 5—COLUMBUS — Ohio's first regional long-term mass vaccination sites for coronavirus will open as soon as late March in Maumee, Lima, and nine other locations across Ohio to administer anywhere from 300 to 3,000 doses a day, Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday. In addition, there will be a fixed eight-week site in downtown Cleveland to be run in conjunction with the Federal Emergency .
Akron Beacon Journal
Akron s Chapel Hill Mall will be one of more than a dozen long-term COVID-19 mass vaccination sites opening across Ohio.
Gov. Mike DeWine and Cuyahoga County officials made the announcement Friday afternoon at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center, the site of a separate eight-week federal mass vaccination clinic, which starts March 17.
The state said the regional mass vaccination clinics will begin opening in the coming weeks as supply becomes available, although DeWine said they were expected to start at the end of the month. They ll operate until they re no longer necessary.
Clinics will be able to administer between 300 and 3,000 vaccines a day, depending on the location, supply and demand, according to the state.