A local health unit's now offering COVID-19 vaccine booster doses for certain people.
Following a provincal government decision to expand eligibility, Public Health Sudbury and Districts says it is now offering booster doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to: individuals 70 and older; health care workers and designated essential caregivers in congregate settings such as long-term care or retirement home staff; individuals who received a complete series of the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Janssen vaccines; and First Nation, Inuit, and Métis adults and their non-Indigenous household members.
In order to be eligible, it must have been at least six months since receiving the last dose in a full series of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Algoma Public Health’s confirmed it is also expanding eligibility along those lines starting Monday, November 8th.