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Ontario to release timeframe for groups to get COVID-19 vaccinations
The province is expected to lay out which population groups will be immunized against COVID-19 within the next few weeks.
The province’s distribution task force says it is working to determine the sequencing over the next number of weeks, after which it should be publicly released.
The timeframe won’t be broken down individually but by category, like health-care workers.
There will be further prioritization within each category based on factors like number of cases in a geographic area and risk of exposure to COVID-19.
The province has released its ethical framework for determining who will get immunized first as more doses of various COVID-19 shots are delivered.
The principles listed in the framework include equity, fairness and transparency, and stress the need to protect those who face the greatest risk of serious illness and death due to “biological, social, geographical, and occupational factors.”
The province says it has administered 18,603 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine so far.
