COVID-19 vaccination is underway for Algoma long-term care residents.
Algoma Public Health says Ontario Finnish Rest Home resident Larry Grekula was the first Algoma resident to receive the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, getting the shot just after 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon - shortly after the health unit announced it has received its first shipment of Moderna's vaccine.
Per the province's vaccination program, those doses are allotted for residents of long-term care homes, with the health unit saying it'll work with all long-term care homes to provide first doses to over 1000 residents over the next two weeks, with the second dose to be given 28 days later.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts announced earlier this week it's set to receive enough of the Moderna vaccine over the next two weeks to immunize all residents of long-term care and high-risk retirement homes by February 5th.
It started vaccinating residents of three Greater Sudbury long-term care homes - Pioneer Manor, Extendicare York, and Extendicare Falconbridge - yesterday, though residents, staff, and essential caregivers of the Wiikwemikoong Nursing Home on Manitoulin Island were the first recipients in the region, receiving the first dose of the vaccine two weeks ago.