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Alberta has postponed the opening of an on-site vaccination clinic at the Cargill meat-packing plant in High River due to a delay in shipments of the Moderna vaccine.
The mass vaccination clinic was scheduled to run Thursday to Saturday to offer workers their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine as part of Phase 2C of Alberta’s immunization strategy. The facility has been a source of rapid transmission over the past year, which makes immunizing its employees a priority for the province.
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The Calgary Catholic Immigration Society, which helps settle refugees in and around the city, has amassed a database of 6,000 people it has assisted over the years. Now, CCIS and its allies are going through the list, making calls to talk about COVID-19 vaccines.
CCIS, for example, identified 136 former refugees in Calgary who are 65 or older and therefore now qualify to receive a shot, according to Fariborz Birjandian, the organizations’ chief executive. Team members reached out to these individuals to make sure they knew they could get the needle, address questions and, if necessary, arrange appointments and trans
Alberta beef plant, site of COVID-19 outbreak last year, to get vaccination clinic
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By The Canadian Press on April 8, 2021.
The Cargill plant, in High River, Alta., is seen on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Alberta Health Services says plans are underway to set up COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the meat-packing plant, which was the site of a major outbreak last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
HIGH RIVER, Alta. – Thousands of workers at a southern Alberta beef-packing plant where there was a major COVID-19 outbreak last year will soon be offered vaccinations in their workplace.
Nearly half of the 2,200 workers at Cargill’s facility at High River, south of Calgary, which shut for two weeks last April, contracted the novel coronavirus and two employees died.
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