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Waterloo Region – Today marks one month since Waterloo Region launched the first COVID-19 vaccine clinic on December 22, 2020 . The first clinic operated out of Grand River Hospital with the first vaccine being administered to Elmira Personal Support Worker, Siham Ibrahim. 
Since launching the GRH Clinic, a mobile clinic began operating on January 12 with a focus on reaching residentsin local long-term care and retirement home settings. To date the region has...
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Waterloo Region – The Region of Waterloo and Cities of Cambridge, Kitchener, and Waterloo want your input on where people should be allowed to ride an e-scooter in our community.
An online survey is now live on the Region’s public engagement website and will be available until Monday, February 1 st .
This project is in response to industry requests and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO)’s five-year pilot that allows municipalities to pass...
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Waterloo Region – A commitment to continue providing world-class, critical services as well as an historic investment in upstream funding was approved by Regional Council today. These investments help further advance Council’s vision to improve the lives of all 630,000 residents.
In approving the 2021 budget, Council is committed to investing thoughtfully to reflect a diverse and growing community, while helping ensure the community is well-positioned to emerge...
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Waterloo Region – Vaccines continues to be rolled out in the region based on the availability of supply. The recent announcement from Pfizer of a decrease in the Canadian allocation of vaccine has resulted in a need to rework the current vaccine clinic plan for the Grand River Hospital clinic. The reduction in supply is due to Pfizer retooling its production line so they are able to produce increased volumes of vaccine in the months ahead.
The decision has been made...
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Waterloo Region – Another milestone has been reached today with over 10,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered since clinics began in late December 2020.
Vaccines are being administered to priority groups in the first phase of a three-phased provincial distribution implementation plan . The first phase prioritizes health care workers, essential caregivers, long-term care home and retirement home residents, First Nation communities and urban Indigenous populations,...
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