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Monday’s snowstorm had major effect on Waterloo Region’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts
Ontario to receive 10,000 courses of Pfizer’s Paxlovid COVID-19 pill in January Early in the afternoon, the region announced it had stopped accepting walk-ins at most clinics. A short time later it announced that all of the clinics would close by 4 p.m.In addition, Pinebush Cambridge, the region’s largest clinic is not open to the general public on Mondays and Tuesdays.Another 1,367 area residents did manage to get a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine, lifting the total in the area to 240,502.A total of 160 more residents got a second dose, lifting that total to 467,857 as 77.3 per cent of the region’s population that has now done so.Waterloo Public Health reported another 325 new positive tests for the coronavirus on Tuesday, lifting the total number of cases in the area to 35,431.This drops the rolling seven-day average number of new daily cases down to 468.9.