Ontario
Ontario promises to get all nursing home residents, staff in hot zones vaccinated by Jan 21
Ontario/IBNS: As the Ontario government faces pressure to speed up the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the province has promised to get all nursing home residents, staff, and essential caregivers in hot zones vaccinated by Jan 21, media reports said.
All eligible residents in the long-term care and retirement homes supported by East Toronto hospital have already managed to get their first shots.
The first round of doses of a two-part vaccine for all eligible residents across 22 homes at Michael Garron Hospital was completed on Wednesday.
The second shot is scheduled for about a month after the first.
On Monday, 1,024 residents were vaccinated, with another 850 on Tuesday and 750 Wednesday, said spokesperson Erica Di Maio in an email, Toronto Star news reported.
The vaccination at St. Clair O’Connor Community Long-Term Care Home, which was hit hard in the first wave and lost eight people, was also completed.
The target date for when residents of long-term care homes outside of Toronto, Peel, York, and Windsor-Essex depends on supplies from manufacturers, said the province.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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