TORONTO A 29-year-old man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after being shot at a parking lot outside an apartment building in Etobicoke Tuesday afternoon. Police responded to the sound of gunfire near Islington Avenue and St. Georges Boulevard, in the Kingsview Village area, at around 4:20 p.m. Officers found a man suffering from two gunshot wounds to his leg and Toronto Paramedic Services said he was transported to a trauma centre with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. “Our officers are currently canvassing and speaking to witnesses,” Duty Inspector Michael Williams told CP24. “What I can tell you about our suspect at this point is very limited, but it s a male with dark skin suspected to have a heavy build, was carrying a handgun at the time. That person was seen fleeing northbound on Islington, and possibly then westbound towards a street just north of us called St Georges.”
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“Obviously we have a lot of work to do when you see the vaccination rate on first dose compared to the rest of the city.”
But that part of the city has not yet made the list in a campaign the city is calling the “Home Stretch”.
Mayor John Tory announced the initiative Wednesday as an effort launching 12 community clinics in 6 priority areas in the North West: Elms – Old Rexdale, Kingsview Village–The Westway, Mount Dennis, Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown, Weston, and Englemount-Lawrence.
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“This one-week, micro-targeted vaccine push will help us increase vaccine uptake in a part of the city with currently low vaccination rates,” the mayor said.
Last Updated Wednesday, July 7, 2021 4:45PM EDT Toronto is launching a call centre, rolling out a multilingual vaccine campaign and will start taking walk-in appointments at one of its mass vaccination sites in an effort to get shots in arms in parts of the city with lower COVID-19 vaccine uptake. “As we experience a high number of available appointments, we ve made the decision to allow for walk-in appointments at the city s Toronto Congress Centre vaccination clinic,” Mayor John Tory said at a briefing Wednesday. Starting Thursday, 2,000 walk-in vaccinations a day will be available at the Toronto Congress Centre for those 18 and up. The walk-in shots will be available from noon to 7 p.m.