Province launches booster shots for COVID-19

ESSEX COUNTY – The COVID-19 vaccination program in Ontario is expanding booster shot eligibility.

In Essex County, the Community Response and Stabilization Team (CRST), a collaboration between Erie Shores HealthCare and Essex-Windsor EMS, will administer booster shots to the following groups of people at least six months after their second dose:

• Age 70+ (birth year 1951);

• Health care workers and designated essential caregivers in congregate settings;

• Ontarians who had TWO doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine; and

• First Nations, Inuit and Métis people and non-Indigenous members of their households.

Beginning on Monday, November 8, the CRST will provide booster doses to eligible persons at weekly pop-up immunization clinics in Leamington and West Windsor.

Clinics in Leamington will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Leamington Town Hall, 111 Erie St. N.

If you meet the criteria, there is no need for an appointment.