More people will be able to book COVID-19 vaccines starting Tuesday morning, as online appointment booking will also expand province-wide.
Through the online webpage, which can be found here, B.C. residents will have to register before booking a vaccine appointment. Starting tomorrow, all B.C. residents born in 1950 or earlier will be able to book an appointment online, over the phone or a ServiceBC office. The phone number to call and book will be changing, to 1-833-838-2323.
All Indigenous residents born in 2003 or later are already able to book a vaccine appointment. Residents who are 16 and older and considering “extremely clinically vulnerable” are also already able to receive a vaccine dose. Eligibility can be found here.
By the end of this week, people in the Kamloops area who are between 55 and 65 years old are also expected to be able to book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment through local pharmacies to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine. NL News has spoken with staff at two local pharmacies today which both were still awaiting shipment of those doses to arrive.
Apart from that, adults who are 18 and older in more than a dozen Kamloops-area communities will be able to get their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at special community clinics between now and the first week of May. Those clinics will be in Ashcroft, Barriere, Chase, Clearwater, Clinton, Logan Lake, Lytton, Sun Peaks and many other communities in Interior Health. A full list, with dates of those clinics and locations, can be found here.
People who register to receive a COVID-19 vaccine will need to provide their name, date of birth, postal code, personal health number and either an email address or a phone number.
As of Saturday, in its most recent update, the B.C. government says 856,800 vaccine doses have been distributed to more than 769,000 people.
Distribution of vaccine doses are starting to ramp up in B.C.; more than 68,500 combined doses were administered on Friday and Saturday.
Editor’s Note: A typo in this story previously said bookings starting tomorrow were for ages 1950 or later, and should’ve said 1950 and earlier. This has been corrected.
