The Northwestern Health Unit and local partners are preparing to launch regional COVID-19 vaccine clinics.
As the vaccine supply starts to increase, the health unit expects to start appointment-based clinics for residents over 80 years old in early April.
“About 3o to 40 per cent of local health units were started later with getting their vaccines and so we’re one of them,” explains Medical Officer of Health Dr Kit Young Hoon. “The reasons were because they prioritized other areas with higher incidence rates, so the Thunder Bay District Health Unit has had a higher incidence rate for a long period of time.”
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The Northwestern Health Unit and local partners are preparing to launch regional COVID-19 vaccine clinics.
As the vaccine supply starts to increase, the health unit expects to start appointment-based clinics for residents over 80 years old in early April.
“About 40 percent of local health units were started later with getting their vaccines and so we’re one of them,” explains Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kit Young Hoon. “The reasons were because they prioritized other areas with higher incidence rates, so the Thunder Bay District Health Unit has had a higher incidence rate for a long period of time.”
Outbreak in Ontario Long-Term Care Home That Killed 70 People Declared Over
BARRIE, Ont. A long-term care home in Barrie, Ont., says a COVID-19 outbreak that killed 70 of its residents has been declared over.
Jarlette Health Services, which owns the Roberta Place nursing home, says the local health unit declared the outbreak over on Thursday.
The outbreak, which involved cases of the COVID-19 variant first detected in the U.K., sickened more than 200 people at the home.
It was first declared on Jan. 8.
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, which Barrie is part of, is among 27 units in Ontario that were allowed to loosen pandemic measures on Tuesday.