{"id":189645,"date":"2023-10-26T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T19:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=189645"},"modified":"2023-10-27T15:09:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:09:56","slug":"up-to-date-covid-vaccines-available-for-all-waterloo-region-residents-starting-monday-october-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/up-to-date-covid-vaccines-available-for-all-waterloo-region-residents-starting-monday-october-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief medical officer announces COVID-19 vaccine availability timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up-to-date COVID and flu vaccines will be available for all residents on Monday, October 30. The announcement was made at this week's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A7olkNI_ZUU&amp;ab_channel=RegionofWaterlooCouncil\">Waterloo Regional Council meeting<\/a>\u00a0by Dr. Hsui-Li Wang, the chief medical officer for Waterloo Region.<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, vaccines had been reserved for vulnerable individuals, but starting Monday, the new vaccine will be made available to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regionofwaterloo.ca\/en\/health-and-wellness\/covid-19-vaccine.aspx#99-Regina-Street-South-Waterloo-Accessibility-and-translation-services-available\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wider public at local public health clinics and participating pharmacies<\/a> and health care providers.<\/p>\n<p>There are no walk in appointments at this time, and clinic appointments must be made through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/book-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the provincial booking system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also on October 30, the Board of Health will begin sending notifications to parents as reminders to update children\u2019s immunization records and vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>The update also stated that while COVID 19 has been increasing slightly in the Region, wastewater data remains at elevated levels with signals dominated by most recent variant (XBB).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the show below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up-to-date COVID and flu vaccines will be available for all residents on Monday, October 30. The announcement was made at this week&#8217;s Waterloo Regional Council meeting\u00a0by Dr. Hsui-Li Wang, the chief medical officer for Waterloo Region. Up until now, vaccines had been reserved for vulnerable individuals, but starting Monday, the new vaccine will be made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":189635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,223],"tags":[284,985,6753,4054],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189645"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190247,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189645\/revisions\/190247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189645"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=189645"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=189645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}