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| Residents of Prince Rupert and Port Edward were staging in the parking lot today, awaiting their time inside the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre ad their opportunity to receive the COVID-19 vaccine |
The parking lot of the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre served as the holding area for those awaiting their vaccination shots, with those who had books appointments on Friday already making their way into the Auditorium for their shot.
The project required some extensive planning by Northern Health, along with the assistance of the City of Prince Rupert Recreation Centre staff to have things ready for today, which was actually one day earlier than had been previously scheduled.
Northern Health estimates that with their 12 hour schedule for the week ahead that more than 1300 vaccination appointments per day will take place
While the vaccine program continues through the day, with hours of 9 AM to 9 PM, residents of the area continue to call into the appointment booking line, which has remained busy through the weekend.
A few times Northern Health has had to remind residents of Prince Rupert and Port Edward of the schedule they have set our for the vaccination program, which is designed to reduce the amount of wait times for those looking to book appointments.
Those wait times have varied through the weekend, which has seen heavy ebbs and flows through early stage of the appointment program so far.
There have also been some glitches along the way with people calling in, getting disconnected from time to time which can be a frustrating situation.
To book an appointment call 1-866-481-2175 Northern Health call takers are working through each day until 7PM
As the clinic got underway, Northern Health provided some helpful information for those heading off to appointments this coming week.
More guidance on the vaccination program can be found through the Northern Health Facebook page for Prince Rupert.
For more on Northern Health see our archive pages here.
You have the wrong information here about who can call in. There is no age limit anymore as of Saturday at 12PM, the directive is now that any adult can call in and book an appointment.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your feedback, as the story is from Sunday, that was the most recent information being relayed by Northern Health at that point (as can be seen from the response from Northern health) they were still advising that residents follow the age guidelines yesterday so as to reduce the time for those calling in to wait ...
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The entire phone call today took 13 minutes. Not bad at all.
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