Durham Region Health Department yesterday announced that residents 40+ will be eligible Monday May 10 after 9 pm to register for the Covid-19 vaccine at any Durham Health
clinic.
If you are eligible, you can book your appointment at: http://durham.ca/vaccineappointment or by calling 1-888-444-5113, it said.
Also eligible are essential workers who cannot work from home (Group 1 and Group 2). These include:
Group 1
- Elementary/secondary school workers who typically work in-person (educators, custodial, school bus drivers, administrative staff)
- Workers responding to critical events (including police, fire, special constables, emergency management and critical infrastructure restoration workers)
- Children’s aid society workers
- Enforcement, inspection, and compliance roles (including by-law enforcement, building inspectors, food inspectors, animal welfare inspectors, border inspections officers, labour inspectors/WSIB field workers)
- Foster care agency workers (including customary care providers)
- Food manufacturing and distribution workers
- Agriculture and farm workers
- Funeral, crematorium, and cemetery workers
Group 2
- Essential and critical retail workers (including grocery, foodbank and non-clinical pharmacy workers, ServiceOntario workers, Service Canada and Passport Canada workers, wholesalers and general goods, restaurant workers, LCBO)
- Workers in manufacturing industries directly involved in supporting the COVID-19 response, construction including infrastructure, and other essential businesses and services where facilities are at heightened risk for Covid-19 outbreaks and spread
- Social workers and other social services staff providing in-person client services (including youth justice workers, OW and ODSP case workers)
- Courts and justice system workers (including probation and parole workers)
- Transportation, warehousing and distribution workers (including public transit workers, truck drivers supporting essential services, marine and rail cargo and maintenance, highway maintenance)
- Electricity (including workers employed in system operations, generation, transmission, distribution and storage)
- Communications infrastructure workers (including cellular, satellite, landline, internet, public safety radio)
- Water and wastewater management workers
- Financial services workers (bank branch staff)
- Veterinarians and veterinary teams
- Waste management workers
- Oil and petroleum workers (including those working in petroleum refineries, those involved in the storage, transmission and distribution of crude oil and petroleum products and those needed for the retail sale of fuel)
- Natural gas and propane gas workers (including those working in the compression, storage, transmission and distribution of natural gas and propane)
- Mine workers (including those needed to ensure the continued operation of active mines)
- Uranium processing workers (those working in the refining and conversion of uranium and fabrication of fuel for nuclear power plants).
Residents 40+ will be eligible Mon. May 10 after 9pm to register for the #COVID19 vaccine at any @DurhamHealth clinic. 💉
If you are eligible, you can book your appointment at: https://t.co/uinqQD4GVT or by calling 1-888-444-5113.
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— Durham Region Health Department (@DurhamHealth) May 9, 2021
News Release: Health Department expands #COVID19 vaccine eligibility to include essential workers Group 2 – Eligibility for residents 40+ and At-Risk health conditions to be included on May 10 https://t.co/M1sgVd3NCZ
— Durham Region Health Department (@DurhamHealth) May 7, 2021