Like it s the Hunger Games : Ottawa residents describe hot spot booking experience
Multi-Skilled Journalist
Colton Praill Asif Hameed spent over two hours trying to book a vaccine appointment through the provincial portal. (Colton Praill / CTV News Ottawa) Asif Hameed is one of the many Ontarians who spent hours Monday morning trying to book a COVID-19 vaccination through the provincial portal. “At first I logged in around two or three minutes after 8:00 a.m. The provincial website was down as soon as you put in the postal code,” Hameed said. Hameed lives in Ottawa’s K1T hotspot. He spent two-and-half hours trying to get his shot.
OTTAWA Asif Hameed is one of the many Ontarians who spent hours Monday morning trying to book a COVID-19 vaccination through the provincial portal. “At first I logged in around two or three minutes after 8:00 a.m. The provincial website was down as soon as you put in the postal code,” Hameed said. Hameed lives in Ottawa’s K1T hotspot. He spent two-and-half hours trying to get his shot. “When I looked at my phone and the first thing was your number 117,300 and so and so in line, it’s a little disheartening and it makes you think that maybe putting it out there like it’s the Hunger Games isn’t the best way to do it,” Hameed said.
Updated: 9:06, 4 May 2021
THE HSE has been forced to clarify jab stats trumpeted by boss Paul Reid.
HSE supremo Reid claimed over 788,000 doses were administered through April - but officials later had to admit the figure included vaccinations dished out at the end of March and start of May.
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The under-pressure HSE CEO maintained there was now “strong momentum” behind Ireland s vaccination campaign.
Taking to Twitter on Monday, Reid boomed: “Great momentum on vaccinations. Almost 200K done last week (>200K when some data is uploaded). >44K done on Friday. >1.6M done in total. Over 788,000 done through April.”
But the HSE was later forced to clarify Reid’s figures for April after being contacted by the Irish Sun.
HSE makes recommendation on vaccination plan
Updated / Monday, 3 May 2021
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Health Correspondent
The Health Service Executive has made a recommendation to the Department of Health on the next steps for the national vaccination campaign against Covid-19.
It is understood that the advice is to continue administering vaccines under the planned age sequence, oldest to youngest in descending order.
The HSE has not recommended jumping age groups, or giving vaccines in parallel with different age groups, at this point, following the decision last week that the Johnson and Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines should be given to people aged 50 years and older, as recommended by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC).
2021-05-03 14:06:11 GMT2021-05-03 22:06:11(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BRUSSELS, May 3 (Xinhua) A new vaccination center opened its doors on Monday at Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Brussels, the second largest in the Belgian capital after the Heysel conference center.
Young people aged 16 and 17 will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine there this summer. Details on the rollout for younger age groups are still being reviewed by the Vaccination Task Force, the Belgian newspaper De Morgen reported on Monday.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for people aged 16 and above.
Between Dec. 28, 2020, and May 1, 2021, a total of 3,058,382 people in Belgium received their first vaccine dose. Of them, 829,376 have already been administered the second dose as well, the Sciensano public health institute said Monday.