Ten walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be held over the next four weeks at schools in London neighbourhoods where uptake of the shot has been low.
The Middlesex London Health Unit announced the first of its Community Hub COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics in Schools on Thursday. The aim of the rotating, school-based pop-up clinics is to further reduce any potential barriers that have prevented people from getting the vaccine for themselves or their children. No appointments or health cards are needed in order to get first or second doses at the clinics.
"We must continue to work to bring COVID-19’s advance under control, and a key part of that effort is increasing the number of children who have received the vaccine,” Dr. Alex Summers, the region's acting medical officer of health, said in a statement. “We recognize that attending a mass vaccination clinic hasn’t always been easy or convenient. We hope that these Community Hub clinics will assist us in increasing the overall vaccination coverage and help us to slow the virus to a crawl.”
The clinics will serve anyone five or older who has not yet started their vaccine series or who needs their second dose and is eight weeks removed from their first jab.
The first of the school-based clinics will be held on Monday at Wilfrid Jury Public School on Lawson Road. With two exceptions on February 17 and 21, all of the upcoming clinics will be operated from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
A full list of the upcoming clinics can be found by clicking here.
As of Sunday, 92.5 per cent of London and Middlesex County residents 12 and older have received one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 90.2 per cent in the same age bracket have had two doses. Just under 50 per cent of people in that age group are triple vaccinated. In the 5 to 11 age group, which got the go ahead to receive the pediatric Pfizer vaccine late last November, 56.3 per cent have received a single dose.
