More groups are becoming eligible today to book their COVID-19 vaccines on the province’s online booking portal.
They are:
-Individuals 40 and older
– Individuals with at-risk health conditions including dementia, diabetes, liver disease, and asthma.
– Group 2 of employees who “cannot work from home”
At-risk health conditions include:
- Immune deficiencies and autoimmune disorders
- Stroke and cerebrovascular disease
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Liver disease
- All other cancers
- Respiratory diseases, such as asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy
- Spleen problems, such as asplenia
- Heart disease
- Hypertension with end organ damage
- Diagnosed mental disorder
- Substance use disorders
- Sickle cell disease
- Thalassemia
- Immunocompromising health conditions
- Other disabilities requiring direct support care in the community
Group 2 of employees who cannot work from home includes:
- Essential and critical retail workers (including grocery, foodbank, pharmacy, ServiceOntario, ServiceCanada,
- Passport Canada, wholesalers and general goods, restaurant, LCBO workers)
- Workers in manufacturing industries directly involved in supporting the COVID-19covid 19 response, construction (including infrastructure) and other essential businesses and services where facilities are at heightened risk for COVID-19covid 19 outbreaks and spread
- Social workers and social services staff who provide in-person client services (including youth justice workers,
- Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program 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 system operations, generation, transmission, distribution and storage workers)
- 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 petroleum refineries, crude oil and petroleum storage, transmission and distribution, retail sale of fuel)
- Natural gas and propane gas workers (including 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)
For more details, please click here.
Eligible groups can use Ontario’s vaccine booking system to find out how to schedule an appointment, or can call the Provincial Vaccine Booking Line number at 1-833-943-3900.
Ontario is making significant progress with its vaccine rollout, with more than 5.5 million doses administered to date.
We are on track to administer first doses to 65% of Ontarians aged 18+ by the end of May – nearly 7.9 million Ontarians. https://t.co/Ot5lxDuDUT pic.twitter.com/d2ao4QpAO4
— Ontario Ministry of Health (@ONThealth) May 5, 2021
With a reliable and stable vaccine supply from the federal government, Ontario has developed an anticipated schedule to expand eligibility to receive the #COVID19 vaccine. All adults are expected to be eligible to book as early as the week of May 24. https://t.co/nLqzlJsp2G pic.twitter.com/6tPd9pW2KT
— Ontario Ministry of Health (@ONThealth) April 29, 2021
Ontario is making significant progress with more than six million doses of #COVID19 vaccine administered to Ontarians by rapidly expanding vaccinations in select pharmacies, hospitals, mobile sites and pop-up locations in hot spot communities across the province. pic.twitter.com/JAICzfBpIp
— Ontario Ministry of Health (@ONThealth) May 8, 2021
