THUNDER BAY – The Thunder Bay District Health Unit will be offering booster shots to a wider group of people, beginning on Monday.
Following new provincial rules, an additional shot will be available to anyone 70 and older, born in 1951 or earlier, health-care workers and designated essential caregivers in congregate settings, anyone who got a complete series of either AstraZeneca or Johnson and Johnson and First Nation, Inuit and Metis adults an non-Indigenous household members.
To be eligible for a booster shot, a person must wait at least six months, or 168 days, after receiving a second dose.
Individuals can check the date of their second dose on their vaccination certificate to determine when they'll be eligible.
They can be found on the Ministry of Health website's proof-of-vaccination section.
In addition to appointments at the health unit's CLE clinic, appointments will also be available in November in district communities.
Vaccine clinics are also being planned by Indigenous partners and select pharmacies that offer COVID-19 vaccines will also provide booster shots to eligible individuals.
