{"id":11917,"date":"2021-04-01T09:53:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/?p=11917"},"modified":"2021-04-05T07:01:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T10:01:26","slug":"sackville-vaccine-updates-astrazeneca-on-the-way-new-info-sheets-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/sackville-vaccine-updates-astrazeneca-on-the-way-new-info-sheets-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Sackville vaccine updates: AstraZeneca on the way, new info-sheets available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Corner Drug Store pharmacist-owner Charles Beaver gives a curbside vaccine with help from a Sackville Rotary volunteer. Beaver has offered to accommodate people with mobility challenges by offering curbside vaccinations. Photo: contributed.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Corner Drug Store\u2019s pharmacist-owner Charles Beaver reports that 270 local area residents were vaccinated at the Sackville pharmacy on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Beaver says the supply of vaccine distributed by the province is expected to slow down in the next two weeks, except for an influx of AstraZeneca vaccines due in the province any day now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not clear yet how many doses of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine will be available in Sackville pharmacies. Up till now, all shots given have been the PfizerBioNTech vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Brunswick Public Health is offering Astra-Zeneca to people 55 or older after a recent precautionary change in advice from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI). The first clinic to offer AstraZeneca to this new age group opens in Saint John today, and more clinics will follow once New Brunswick receives an expected 37,000 doses of AstraZeneca sometime next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OVER 10% OF POPULATION VACCINATED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updated numbers released Wednesday by the province show that 10.6% of the population has now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The province has used up just over 77% of its vaccine supply, which leaves 27,860 doses in the province, waiting to be distributed and administered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About ten high schools where staff vaccination clinics were delayed will in turn see a delay in the return to full time classes, to allow time for staff who received vaccines this week to develop coronavirus immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tantramar Regional High School will return to full time classes on April 12, as originally planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TCTF INFO SHEETS AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screencap of a new info-sheet created by the Tantramar COVID-19 Task Force.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

If you are looking for more information on the province\u2019s vaccine rollout, the Tantramar COVID-19 Task Force has started circulating printable info sheets to get the word out. The task force is encouraging people to print and share a flyer created by volunteers from the Physical Health Action Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can download a copy of the info sheet in colour<\/a> or black and white<\/a>, or find the Tantramar COVID-19 Task Force on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VACCINE<\/strong> ELIGIBILITY INFO FOR SACKVILLE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of April 1<\/em><\/strong>, the following groups are eligible to book a vaccine through a pharmacy in New Brunswick:<\/p>\n\n\n\n