COVID-19 vaccination clinics will open at schools in London over the next month as health officials work to get more doses of the vaccine into the arms of the region’s youth amid the Omicron wave and a return to in-person learning, the Middlesex-London Health Unit said Thursday.The first pop-up clinic to open as part of the effort, which the health unit describes as “Community HUB COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics in Schools,” will run on Monday at Wilfrid Jury Public School from 4 p.m.
to 7:30 p.m., offering first and second doses to those over the age of five.The second will run at Bonaventure Meadows Public School on Feb.
7, also from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. 3,645 people in Ontario hospitals with COVID, 599 in intensive care In a statement, the health unit said the 10 school-based clinics had been “scheduled at schools in neighbourhoods where there has been lower uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine,” and that no appointment would be necessary for access.“We must continue to work to bring COVID-19’s advance under control, and a key part of that effort is increasing the number of children who have received the vaccine,” the region’s acting medical officer of health, Dr.
Alex Summers, said in a statement.“We recognize that attending a mass vaccination clinic hasn’t always been easy or convenient.