CVS begins administering COVID-19 vaccines at select Long Island locations
- by Virginia Carter
- in World Media
- — Feb 14, 2021
The new cases are located in the Far North West (23), Far North Central (nine), Far North East (six), North West (30), North Central (18), North East (eight), Saskatoon (66), Central West (six), Central East (14), Regina (55), South West (one), South Central (one) and South East (five) zones.
Select CVS stores in California, including those in Sonora, Angels Camp and Jackson are the latest to offer free COVID-19 vaccine through a federal program.
The Sinopharm announcement comes as COVID-19 cases surge in the country of around 15 million people.
The two new cases announced on Saturday both arrived from India via the United Arab Emirates on February 9. This positive result has been reported previously. Both cases were found in managed isolation.
Although children are generally at less risk of severe disease after contracting the coronavirus, a pediatrician and clinician-scientist at the Oxford Vaccine Group said that it was important to test the vaccine on children due to the negative effect of the pandemic on their education and emotional wellbeing.
The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases is 1972.
On Friday, laboratories processed 4,683 tests.
Ardern said the government expects to start offering the vaccine to border and managed isolation facility workers on February 20.
Appointments opened up yesterday for the roughly 100 select CVS stores in California offering the vaccine to only those 65+ and healthcare workers, and as of this morning, every appointment, statewide, was filled.
"Last year we indicated the vaccine would arrive in quarter two, and earlier this year we updated that to quarter one".
She added that it would take all year for the full vaccination programme to be rolled out in its entirety.
Only a handful of African nations have begun giving vaccinations as the continent scrambles to obtain supplies for its 1.3 billion people, even as many richer nations are racing ahead with mass immunisation campaigns.
Today was the first time the Government has put any kind of timeline on the vaccine rollout.
