Ontario Premier Doug Ford was in Hamilton on Thursday to pay a visit to the city’s first forthcoming large-scale COVID-19 vaccine clinic.
Ford met with city officials, posed for some photos, spoke at a media conference, and took a tour of the new mass vaccination facility set up at FirstOntario Centre (formerly Copps Coliseum), which is set to officially open this coming Monday, March 22nd.
Thank you @fordnation and @SkellyHamilton for visiting Hamilton’s COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic at FirstOntario Centre. Many hockey battles have been waged here, together we’ll fight to defeat COVID-19 in our community! pic.twitter.com/EeuGoxlRkW
— City of Hamilton (@cityofhamilton) March 18, 2021
The opening of this clinic – the first large-scale clinic in Hamilton – is intended to increase capacity as vaccine rollout continues in the city and gradually opens up to broader portions of the local population.
Currently, COVID-19 vaccines are available for select eligible communities in Hamilton’s population, including older adults ages 80 and up, highest priority healthcare workers, residents living and working in the shelter system, staff and residents of retirement and long-term care homes, and adult recipients of chronic home care.
To date, a total of 62,619 vaccine doses have been administered in Hamilton; however, that number represents all doses, and not the number of Hamilton residents fully vaccinated with both required doses of the Pfizer, Moderna, or AstraZeneca vaccines.
Read more about COVID-19 vaccine rollout on the city website.
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