Health Minister Dorothy Shephard says vaccine clinics will be available in some New Brunswick schools (Image via GNB)
Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines clinics will be held in some New Brunswick schools, according to Health Minister Dorothy Shephard.
The campaign to vaccinate children aged 5 to 11 kicks off on Friday and will include after-hours clinics in schools, Shephard said in the Legislature on Thursday.
“We have schools who have already organically taken on the course of putting vaccine clinics in their schools after hours,” Shephard said during Question Period.
Questions about accommodating to the busy schedules of parents we’re raised by Liberal Health Critic Jean-Claude D’Amours.
The question sparked criticism from the minister, who said the opposition would be “informed” had they not left the COVID cabinet committee.
“We are in rural New Brunswick, we are in urban New Brunswick, and we are in schools after school hours when the children are still there and their parents are coming to pick them up,” Shephard said.
As of 8 a.m., 8,383 children have been booked for a pediatric vaccination appointment, according to Shephard.
Nearly 55,000 New Brunswickers will become eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty youth vaccine tomorrow.
There is still no decision on whether kids in this age group will require the jab to attend a school or eat in restaurants.
