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Rick Wilson of St. Clairsville receives a COVID-19 vaccination Tuesday during a busy clinic day. The age range of 50 and older will be expanded to 40 and older Friday, and more conditions will be taken into account. Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers in the Ohio House of Representatives are calling for an end to mask mandates.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE As more COVID-19 vaccines are made available, the state is again expanding the age range of eligibility, this time to those Ohioans 40 and older. This occurs just a week after vaccine eligibility had expanded to those age 50 and older. By March 29, all Ohioans ages 16 and older are expected to be eligible.
COLUMBUS Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine had some good news for student-athletes Monday.
Last week he announced student-athletes incidentally exposed to COVID-19 in class are no longer required to quarantine unless symptoms develop. On Monday, Ohio Department of Health Director Stephanie McCloud issued an addendum that updates quarantine guidance for spring sports. Students will now be permitted to participate in organized sporting and extracurricular activities as long as they remain symptom-free and follow applicable safety precautions. However, students who are exposed in settings outside of the classroom will be required to follow existing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quarantine guidance.
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Belmont County residents await their COVID-19 vaccinations Wednesday at a clinic in the Ohio Valley Mall. People wishing to be vaccinated should visit the website gettheshot.coronavirus.ohio.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE Belmont County Deputy Health Director Robert Sproul said his staff administered shots to all residents who had been on a waiting list for COVID-19 vaccinations, and now people wanting to be inoculated should visit gettheshot.coronavirus.ohio.
His staff is again vaccinating people in the former Sears store at the Ohio Valley Mall this week, with 700 shots scheduled Wednesday, and 600 Thursday.
“This will complete our list. We’ve been registering people with our phone numbers and online. This will be the last,” he said. “We’ve called everybody on our list. … It will be the statewide system scheduled going forward.”
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COLUMBUS Gov. Mike DeWine announced another advance in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic Friday, with news that 15 long-term mass vaccination clinics will open throughout Ohio to expand access to the shots.
The state-sponsored mass vaccination clinics will be located in Lima, Maumee, Dayton, Columbus, Akron, Youngstown, Cincinnati, Chillicothe, Marietta, Wilmington and Zanesville. Four mobile mass vaccination clinics will also make rounds in the areas of northwestern and west-central Ohio (Ada), southeastern Ohio (Athens), north-central Ohio (Mansfield), and east-central Ohio (Steubenville).
DeWine also said an eight-week mass vaccination clinic will open March 17 at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center.