Public Health Sudbury and Districts is urging everyone who can to book their COVID-19 vaccination.
The health unit notes those who are - or turn - 60 or older this year can now book appointments on the provincial booking website or by phone, at 1-800-708-2505.
Appointments can also be booked at that phone number if you're pregnant, have a "highest-risk" or "high-risk" health condition or are an essential caregiver to such an individual, residents, essential caregivers, and staff of high-risk congregate living settings, adults 18 or older in Gogama, Sultan, Shining Tree, and Westree, or anyone previously eligible, including health care workers, Indigenous adults 18 or older, adult recipients of chronic home care, faith leaders, and staff, residents, and essential caregivers of retirement or long-term care homes or congregate care settings.
Starting tomorrow, licensed child care workers will also be able to book an appointment.
Eligibility's a little stricter for North Algoma - which falls under Algoma Public Health - with clinics open to: those 65 and older; health care workers; faith leaders; adult chronic home care recipients; Indigenous adults and their household members; education workers who provide support to students with special education needs; staff and caregivers in long-term care, retirement homes, and other congregate care settings; and organ transplant recipients and those waitlisted for a transplant, certain stem cell transplant recipients, people with certain neurological diseases in which respiratory function may be compromised, those with hematological malignancy diagnosed less than a year ago, those with certain kidney disease, and essential caregivers for those categories.
North Algoma's clinics are set to include those 60 to 64 starting May 5th.
To book an appointment, call Wawa's central appointment line at 705-914-0464, the Dubreuilville Medical Centre, or White River's Northern Neighbours Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic.