Toronto expanding targeted COVID-19 vaccine strategy with mobile clinics
CBC News | Posted: August 31, 2021 1:43 PM | Last Updated: August 31, 2021
Clinics will be found in places like workplaces, schools, childcare centres and more
Toronto is expanding its "micro-targeted approach" to COVID-19 vaccinations, Mayor John Tory announced at a press conference Tuesday.
As part of the approach, the city is bringing in up to 200 mobile clinics each week. Those clinics will be found in places like workplaces, schools, childcare centres, places of worship, TTC stations, grocery stores and more.
"If you put these clinics in the right spot at the right time, people, many for the first time, will come out to get vaccinated," Tory said.
Toronto has had a lot of success getting people vaccinates, Tory said, "but now, as we move into the fall … we know we have much more work to do."
The city also says that starting this week, neighbourhoods with high numbers of unvaccinated people in three specific age groups — 12 to 17, 25 to 49 and residents 65 and older — will be the focus of expanded clinics and outreach.
A list of public clinics can be found on the city's website.
According to the city, 76.6 per cent of eligible Toronto residents have now had two shots of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Provincial data shows there were 120 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Toronto Tuesday.