TORONTO Vaccine Hunters Canada has become an invaluable online tool to help alert thousands of Canadians of vaccine clinic pop-ups. They’ve since partnered with the City of Toronto. Engineer Zain Manji recently developed a tool allowing Ontario residents to use their postal code to find vaccine clinics where they live. Throughout the pandemic, the Community Fridges Toronto network of public fridges stocked with fresh, free food has helped many people dealing with food insecurity. And before being legally stopped by the City Toronto-based Carpenter Khaleel Seivwright and 40 volunteers had been building tiny homes for the homeless population. He said the idea was to give vulnerable people who feel unsafe in traditional shelters “somewhere warm to go.”
The Lower Mainland’s health authorities are allowing people as young as 30 who live in neighbourhoods with surging COVID-19 infections to get vaccinated, opening short-term clinics in those areas.
COVID-19: Toronto opens 17K vaccine appointments for week of May 10; Ontario reports 3,166 new cases
COVID-19: Toronto opens 17K vaccine appointments for week of May 10; Ontario reports 3,166 new cases
Ontario broke provincial vaccination records for the second consecutive day, with 144,724 doses administered in the past 24 hours By NOW Staff
Toronto opens new block of vaccine appointments for week of May 10
4:30 pm The city opened more than 17,000 new vaccine appointments across five city-run clinics for the week of May 10 due to additional supply.
The move means the city clinics can administer approximately 98,000 vaccine doses between May 10 and 16. Previously, appointments at city clinics had almost completely booked up through early June after the province expanded eligibility to all people 18 and up living in hot spots.
Software engineers in Toronto have launched a texting tool that helps users in B.C. and Ontario find the vaccination site that is closest to their postal code.
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Texting tool built by U of T alumnus helps Canadians find nearest vaccine clinic: Toronto Star Zain Manji, who studied computer science and economics at U of T, and business partner Ashish Yelekar built a text-based service to help Ontario residents find the nearest vaccine clinic (photo courtesy of Zain Manji)
Ontario residents can now find the nearest COVID-19 vaccine clinics by typing a short text message.
Inspired by a similar service in the United States,
Zain Manji and Ashish Yelekar, the founders of Lazer Technologies, developed a service that allows Ontarians to instantly receive a list of the three nearest vaccine clinics by texting their postal code to 1-833-356-1683, the