The province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health says it will take between 4 and 6 months to vaccinate the 35,000 school-aged children in the province currently ineligible to receive the shot, but those timelines will largely depend on national recommendations.
Dr. Janice Fitzgerald says the hope is that they will be able to start the rollout before the end of this year and get “most” of those kids in for their first shot in early 2022.
How long it will take to get second doses administered will depend on recommendations from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.
She says their guidance on the intervals between first and second doses will determine the pace of the rollout. However, she does note that they anticipate most parents will be eager to get their kids immunized as soon as the vaccine is available to them.