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Ontario Is Giving Fourth Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccines To Even More People & Here's Who

Appointments can start being made on Thursday.

More people will soon be able to sign up and get their fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose in Ontario.

On Wednesday, April 6, the Ontario government announced that it will be expanding eligibility for fourth doses to all residents who are aged 60 years old and above.

These vaccines will also be available to First Nation, Inuit and Métis individuals, as well as their non-Indigenous household members if they are aged 18 and over.

As of April 7, at 8:00 a.m., those who qualify will be able to start booking their appointments.

To schedule an appointment, eligible Ontarians can either go through the COVID-19 vaccine portal, call the Provincial Vaccine Contact Centre at 1-833-943-3900, or go through Indigenous-led vaccine clinics.

Bookings can also be made directly through local public health units, participating pharmacies or at participating primary care settings.

"As we continue to live with COVID-19, we are using every tool available to manage this virus and reduce its impact on our hospitals and health system, including by expanding the use of booster doses," Health Minister Christine Elliott said in the announcement.

"Vaccines are our best defence against COVID-19 and its variants."

This will add to the list of people who have already been eligible to book their fourth COVID-19 vaccine doses. As of January 14, immunocompromised Ontarians were able to sign up for bookings, while last December residents in long-term care homes and other congregate care settings were able to get their additional doses too.

Ontario appears to be in its sixth COVID-19 wave, which has prompted Toronto's top doctor to urge locals to mask up while they're indoors, even though mask mandates have been lifted in most spots.