A new mobile effort to test and vaccinate members of the island’s regional migrant community could start as soon as this weekend, giving COVID-19 vaccine shots to residents who are members of a church group, according to the Department of Public Health and Social Services.
Because regional migrants have been identified as a high-risk group, with a disproportionately large number of COVID-19 deaths, vaccines during the outreach will be administered to everyone 16 and older, according to Public Health.
Vaccine eligibility for other Guam residents will remain the same, which currently is 50 years and older, although residents 40 and older also will be eligible, starting Thursday.
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