Pre-registration for the vaccine has opened up in the region. Currently, the following groups qualify:
If you or anyone you know belongs to one of these groups, you can pre-register here: https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/vaccinePreReg
- Long-term care and retirement home staff, residents and essential caregivers
- Seniors group setting staff and residents
- Adults 80 years of age and older
- Indigenous adults
- Adults receiving chronic home care
- Patient-facing health care workers involved in the COVID-19 response: Specimen Collection Centers, teams supporting outbreak response, vaccine clinics, and mobile teams, Mobile Testing Teams, COVID-19 Isolation Centers, COVID-19 Laboratory Services
- Medical first responders (paramedics, medical first response firefighters)
- Needle exchanges & supervised consumption and treatment services
- Community Health Centres serving disproportionally affected or at-risk communities
- Home and community care health care workers caring for recipients of chronic homecare and seniors in congregate living facilities or providing hands-on care to COVID-19 patients in the community
- Health care workers in congregate settings (assisted living, correctional settings, residential facilities, hospices, palliative care settings, shelters, supportive housing)
- Health care workers with Adult day programs for seniors
- Other health care services for Indigenous populations
- Birth centres, OBGY, Midwifery
- Community-based specialists
- Death investigation professionals
- Dentistry
- Contract nursing agencies
- Pharmacies
- Primary care
- Respirology (Respiratory Therapy)
- Walk-in clinics
- Laboratory services
If you or anyone you know belongs to one of these groups, you can pre-register here: https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/vaccinePreReg