Ontario expands COVID-19 vaccine to 17 hospitals including hardest-hit areas
by Lucas Casaletto
Last Updated Dec 18, 2020 at 2:07 pm EDT
Ontario’s government has announced new vaccination sites where health care workers and essential caregivers who work in hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes, and other congregate settings will be inoculated.
Over the next two weeks, the Ford government says it will gradually increase its COVID-19 vaccine rollout across 17 additional hospitals, including regions – like Toronto, Peel, and York – currently seeing the highest rates of COVID-19 infection.
Gen. Rick Hillier, the lead of Ontario’s COVID-19 taskforce, said the province is expecting to receive up to 90,000 Pfizer-BioNTech doses from the federal government before the end of the year.
Published Friday, December 18, 2020 12:25PM EST Last Updated Friday, December 18, 2020 12:27PM EST The Ford government has released a list of 17 additional hospital sites that will receive doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine over the next two weeks. The first 6,000 doses of the vaccine received by the province were sent to Toronto’s University Health Network and The Ottawa Hospital earlier this week. So far more than 2,300 health care workers have received their first dose of the vaccine at those two sites with more expected to be vaccinated in the coming weeks. The province, however, has planned a wider rollout for when it receives its next shipment of the vaccine.
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TORONTO The Ontario government has released a list of 17 additional hospital sites that will receive doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine over the next two weeks. The first 6,000 doses of the vaccine received by the province were sent to Toronto’s University Health Network and The Ottawa Hospital earlier this week. So far more than 2,300 health-care workers have received their first dose of the vaccine at those two sites with more expected to be vaccinated in the coming weeks. The province, however, has planned a wider rollout for when it receives its next shipment of the vaccine. It says that a total of 17 additional hospital sites have been chosen to “to continue vaccinating health care workers and essential caregivers who work in hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes and other congregate settings caring for seniors.”
Windsor Regional Hospital will be one of seventeen hospitals in Ontario to begin receiving doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the next two weeks, the province announced Friday.
Hospital officials say Windsor Regional will receive a “limited supply” of the vaccines but the exact number or the exact date for delivery is not yet known.
They say first group the Ontario government is focusing on vaccinating are employees who work at long term care and retirement Homes that are not in outbreak in Grey (lockdown) and red (control) regions in the province, including Windsor and-Essex.
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