Ontario vaccination Canada's Ontario starts inoculating people above 40 with AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
Ontario/IBNS: Appointments for AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccines are being booked in Canada's Ontario for eligible people above 40 years by select pharmacies and primary care offices across the province starting Tuesday.
Ontario's decision to lower the eligibility age for AstraZeneca vaccines from 55 to 40 was made after the federal government of Canada's announced onApr 18 that Ontario was free to expand eligibility for the Oxford vaccine to any adult over the age of 18.
This announcement by the federal government was made when some pharmacists warned they had doses sitting idle because of the age restrictions.
Before Ontario's decision to lower the eligibility criteria, the vaccine in Ontario was offered only to people aged above 55 in keeping with the recommendations from the National Advisory Council on Immunization (NACI) earlier this spring.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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