Toronto To Open COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic For Frontline Workers On Monday
Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
Amanda Parsons, a registered nurse on staff at the Northwood Care facility, administers a dose of the Moderna vaccine to Ann Hicks in Halifax on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. In a bid to control COVID-19, the federal government plans to make free vaccines available to everyone who lives in Canada over the course of 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan-Pool
Toronto will be opening a COVID-19 immunization clinic at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Monday.
The clinic will be for designated recipients including healthcare workers on the frontline.
“This site will be focused on vaccinating people designated by the province as next in line for the vaccine, including frontline healthcare workers in our shelter system and public health workers who will work themselves as COVID-19 immunizers,” Mayor John Tory explained.
Fire Chief Matthew Pegg, general manager of Toronto’s Office of Emergency Management, explains that there will multiple immunization sites in community centres and mobile clinics but there is no timing on that plan yet.
“The task of making vaccinations available to 3-million people requires initial steps forward like this,” Tory said of the clinic.
The clinic will offer some 250 doses per day for three weeks with second doses to the same people for the three weeks after that.
It will be open for at least six weeks, seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
