Toronto Is Opening Up A Bunch Of COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments & Here's When You Can Book
8,500 appointments are up for grabs!
If you've been trying to book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment for your first, second or booster dose with no luck, Friday might just be your lucky day.
Toronto Mayor John Tory announced in a tweet that 8,500 new vaccine appointments will be available for this Sunday or Monday at city-run clinics.
#TeamToronto is continuing to boost our vaccination capacity.
The City is opening up 8,500 new vaccine appointments at City-run clinics for this upcoming Sunday and Monday.
Appointment bookings will open this morning at 8AM. Book here: https://t.co/e5JSvWjSxD pic.twitter.com/90iML3EP9R
— John Tory (@JohnTory) January 7, 2022
Bookings for the new appointments opened up this morning at 8 a.m., and to secure your spot, you can head over to the provincial booking system.
According to a press release, these additional appointments were made available "as part of the ongoing work to increase Team Toronto's vaccination capacity through the Toronto Omicron Action Plan."
"In response to the Omicron variant, all members of Team Toronto have worked to increase total vaccination capacity to more than 1.2 million doses per month at the City-run clinics, hospital partner clinics, more than 525 local pharmacies and doctors' offices."
As of January 6 at 10:30 a.m, Ontario reported 13,339 new daily cases of COVID-19 with a weekly average of 14,532 cases according to the Ontario government.
In Toronto, 86.7% of residents 12 years or older have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine and over 46% of children five years old to 11 have received one dose, with 7% having received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a press release.
Those 30 years old and older looking to book in for an appointment this weekend at a city-run clinic will receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as "City-run clinics and health care partners across the province await further shipments of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine later this month."