TORONTO —
Over 31,000 COVID-19 vaccination appointments for kids aged 5 to 11 have been booked in Toronto to this point, with city-run clinics, colleges and pharmacies gearing as much as administer vaccines beginning tomorrow.
On Thursday, Mayor John Tory, together with Medical Officer of Well being Dr. Eileen de Villa and beloved cartoon character Polkaroo, supplied an replace on the vaccination rollout for youths.
To this point, over 31,000 appointments of the greater than 49,000 whole slots at the moment obtainable have been booked for youths over the following two and a half weeks.
“That is terrific information for the protection and well-being before everything of these youngsters, the protection and well-being of our collective well being but additionally issues like retaining the colleges open and attempting to lastly put this nasty pandemic behind us,” Tory stated on Thursday.
On Wednesday morning, the provincial reserving system opened up permitting mother and father to e-book an appointment at one among Toronto’s 5 immunization clinics arrange for kids.
Appointments start on Thursday, lower than every week after Well being Canada authorized Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Earlier than the approval of the pediatric shot, solely people aged 12 and older have been eligible for a vaccine in Ontario.
Tory stated that he expects practically 50,000 appointments for youths can be booked by the primary week of December.
“It is good to see that numerous households wish to get their youngsters vaccinated as quickly as doable…It was a response that surpassed even firstly expectations and naturally prompted extra appointments to be opened up,” he stated.
The metropolis’s 5 vaccination clinics for youths are situated at:
- Metro Toronto Conference Centre, 255 Entrance St. W., North Constructing, Corridor A
- Cloverdale Mall, 250 The East Mall
- Scarborough City Centre, 300 Borough Dr.
- Mitchell Area Group Centre, 89 Church Ave.
- Woodbine Mall, 500 Rexdale Blvd.
As a part of Toronto’s kid-friendly strategy, kids can be greeted with a superhero vaccine passport on the clinics, together with stickers, colouring sheets and superhero selfie stations.
Along with the city-run clinics, beginning tomorrow vaccinations can be supplied at over 230 colleges, choose pharmacies and physician’s places of work.
“Weeks upfront of vaccine even arriving, TPH (Toronto Public Well being) and its Group Toronto companions have deliberate 230 school-based clinics as a hub and spoke mannequin to service 390 colleges in these neighbourhoods for 55,000 youngsters,” Counc. Joe Cressy stated on the briefing.
Cressy stated caregivers and college students will obtain clinic data immediately from taking part colleges.
On Tuesday, the primary small group of 10 kids acquired their first shot at Toronto’s SickKids Hospital- marking the primary youngsters to obtain the vaccine throughout the nation.
“The expertise of vaccination, as a result of there was a distraction, as a result of there was a little bit of enjoyable, as a result of there was colouring supplies and lollipops and all that type of factor, I believe it went very nicely and hopefully that’ll be an expertise that repeats itself time and again,” Tory stated.
Thus far, greater than 88 per cent of Torontonians 12 years and older have acquired one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 85 per cent have acquired two doses and are thought-about totally vaccinated.
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