With the continuing rollout of Ontario's COVID-19 vaccination plan, Sudbury's health unit has expanded the list of those who now qualify to book a vaccination appointment.
Beginning Thursday May 6, this will include adults 50 years of age and older in 2021 (born in 1971 or earlier).
Also on May 6, Public Health Sudbury and Districts will be accepting vaccine bookings from essential workers in Group 1 of the province’s Phase 2 schedule (Government of Ontario).
The essential workers includes those who are defined as workers who cannot perform their work from home, which includes the following:
- Remaining elementary and secondary school workers (including educators, custodial, school bus drivers, administrative staff).
- Workers responding to critical events (including police, fire, special constables, children’s aid society workers, emergency management, critical infrastructure restoration workers).
- Enforcement, inspection and compliance roles (including by-law enforcement, building inspectors, food inspectors, animal welfare inspectors, border inspection officers, labour inspectors, WSIB field workers).
- Remaining individuals working in licensed childcare settings (including all licensees, employees and students on educational placements who interact directly with children in licensed child care centres and in authorized recreation and skill building programs, licensed home child care and in-home service providers, employees of home child care agencies).
- Foster care agenda workers (including customary care providers).
- Food manufacturing and distribution workers.
- Agriculture and farm workers.
- Funeral, crematorium and cemetery workers.
Individuals can book online, or call by telephone.
The main telephone number is 705 674-2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week.
To help with call volumes, PHSD said an additional call centre has been set up.
Alternate line: call 1-844 782-2273, between 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week.
