From Communications NS
The province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health says officials are ramping up COVID-19 vaccination capacity.
Doctor Robert Strang says phase one is not just to vaccinate frontline healthcare workers dealing directly with the virus, long-term care residents, and seniors.
Doctor Strang says it is a testing ground to resolve logistical issues, before expanding vaccination efforts as more vaccine becomes available.
“What that does is puts us in a position to be ready when we get much larger amounts of vaccine in phase two. We’re not trying to figure out how to deliver that, we’ve done all that work in phase one,” he says. “The speed of this will slowly increase, and by the time we get to the spring, with phase two, our objective is to deliver as much and 10,00 doses of vaccine per day.”
Doctor Strang says phase two is coming in late April, into May and June.
He says ordinary people will start receiving vaccinations in phase three.
“Phase three, which will begin in the summer, will include all other Nova Scotians, people who weren’t included in initial phases one and two.”
Doctor Strang says they hope to vaccinate 75 per cent of people in the province by early fall.
He says they have expanded to five vaccine storage sites adding Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Valley Regional Hospital, and Colchester East Hants Health Centre.
Doctor Strang reported three new cases Tuesday, all in Central Zone, and 19 active infections provincewide.
