70+ CAN NOW GET VACCINE, SAYS HEALTH UNIT THURSDAY
SIMCOE MUSKOKA — If you were born in 1951 or before it’s your turn to get vaccinated.
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit said today adults 70 and older (born in 1951 or earlier), as well as all remaining (moderate priority) healthcare workers as identified in the Ministry of Health’s Guidance on Health Care Worker Prioritization can now pre-register for a COVID-19 vaccine appointment through the health unit’s website at www.smdhu.org.
They add that as Phase 2 begins to roll out, adults 70 and older join all healthcare workers; essential caregivers of residents in long-term care and retirement homes; adult recipients of chronic home care; and faith leaders with increased risk of exposure as those who are eligible to pre-register.
As well, pre-registration also continues to be open for all Indigenous adults and their household members 16 years of age and older. Urban Indigenous and First Nations communities have been a priority group for COVID-19 vaccines since Phase 1.
Once a person has pre-registered on the health unit website they will be placed in the queue to receive a vaccine appointment. They will be sent an email invitation from the province with a booking code to book their appointment on the provincial booking system. Both first and second dose appointments will be generated at this time.
More than 73,000 doses of vaccine have already been administered in Simcoe-Muskoka. For more information about COVID-19 immunization plan, please visit our COVID pages on www.smdhu.org
March 25, 2021 @ 2:07 pm
We have been trying to pre-register for over an hour online, and each time it comes back every time (that would be 8 attempts each) with a reply “Incorrect value in captcha) or it comes back with a black box where the code should be or it comes back with “timed out”. I guess this is what is meant by ‘the benefits of online registration’?