The first doses of COVID-19 vaccine has been administered at the Oaks Retirement Village in Wallaceburg.
“Our residents received their first vaccine for COVID-19 this past weekend and are feeling great,” officials with the Oaks posted on social media on Tuesday, February 9, 2021.
“Thank you so much to the Chatham-Kent Public Health Team for being so kind to our residents while providing such an efficient and professional service.”
CK Public Health officials said over the past weekend, staff from CK Public Health and Chatham-Kent EMS continued work to vaccinate residents of long-term care homes and ‘high risk’ retirement homes across Chatham-Kent.
“The teams were deployed to all corners of Chatham-Kent and vaccinated facilities located in Blenheim, Chatham, Ridgetown, Tilbury and Wallaceburg,” said Jeff Moco, a spokesperson for CK Public Health, in an email, adding this included the Oaks Retirement Village in Wallaceburg.
“The second shipment of vaccine that arrived this past Friday is enough to complete the first round of vaccinations for the first priority group of residents outlined above.”
Moco added that Fairfield Park in Wallaceburg will not receive vaccine until permitted to do so, based on Provincial Guidelines for homes in outbreak.
“In terms of the total number of doses administered, we will be providing those details as part of the Thursday status update as we compile the data,” Moco said.
After the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine in Chatham-Kent, a total of 404 doses were administered.
