COVID-19 vaccines doses having been shipped to Niagara so far, and another 20,000 arriving in the next two weeks, the region’s acting medical officer of health is hoping everyone 75-plus will have received at least one shot by mid-April.Dr.
Mustafa Hirji says 59 per cent of Niagara’s 80-plus population have received at least one dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine as of Monday, and another 41 per cent of that population are booked to receive their first shot with public health or a Niagara Health hospital.“We’re moving quickly through this group,” Hirji said.