COVID-19 vaccination appointments for people aged 90 or older and Indigenous seniors.The health authority phone numbers set up for bookings were deluged with calls.
Province announces urgent and primary care centre for Penticton The province said 1.4 million calls came in during the first 90 minutes the phone lines were live.In the Okanagan, siblings Steven King and Laurie Postill spent most of the day on Monday trying to book an appointment for their 90-year-old father.“I personally went through just over 100 calls and then I finally got through at about 3:00 p.m.
and then I went on hold for just 30 seconds shy of one hour,” said King. “(It was) very frustrating, as you can imagine.”“We were lucky because we had time yesterday.