Ontario residents 75+ can start booking COVID-19 vaccines through online system

As of Monday, anyone aged 75 and older can book a COVID-19 vaccine in Ontario.

Up until now, the minimum age was 80.

The province is a couple weeks ahead of schedule in its vaccine rollout.

People in the 75 to 79 age group were initially set to become eligible by the first week of April, but the government announced last week it was moving up the date.

Also starting Monday, certain pharmacies and family physicians in some regions be allowed to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot to anyone 60 or older.

In the next two weeks, another 350 pharmacies in the province will be able to administer vaccines. The province says it will provide details on which pharmacies in the coming days.

Meanwhile, a number of regions are moving to different restriction levels in the province’s colour-coded pandemic framework.

The Brant, Chatham-Kent and Leeds, Grenville and Lanark regions are now in the red zone, which is the second-most restrictive.

Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph is now in orange.

Four others, Timiskaming, Porcupine, North Bay Parry Sound and Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington, are in yellow.