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Team Toronto launches “Vax The East”

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A 10-day campaign to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates across Toronto’s east end

TORONTO, ON Feb. 10, 2022 – Mayor Tory has announced the launch of “Vax The East,” Team Toronto’s latest vaccination effort to bring COVID-19 vaccines to neighbourhoods with lower vaccination rates.

Vax The East will run from February 12 to 21 and bring COVID-19 vaccines close to home for residents in the east end of Toronto. The campaign’s hyper-local vaccination opportunities are particularly aimed at vaccinating residents in Flemingdon Park, Thorncliffe Park and across Scarborough.

Vax The East: Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park

Kicking off this weekend, Team Toronto will hold Vax The East events at the Ontario Science Centre and the Thorncliffe Park Community Hub on Saturday, February 12 and Sunday, February 13 from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Both clinics will offer first, second, third and kids (paediatric) COVID-19 vaccines.

Pfizer and Moderna will be available. Physicians and nurses will be available to answer vaccine-related questions. While outreach efforts will be focused on Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park communities, eligible residents across Toronto are welcome to attend both clinics.

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Walk-ins will be accepted at both clinics. A health card is not required for vaccination. Appointments can also be booked now in the provincial booking system or by calling 1-833-943-3900. More information is available on the Michael Garron Hospital website .

Whether it’s for the love of science or for the love of community, residents are encouraged to come out to “Vax The East: Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park” events this weekend to get vaccinated and protect themselves, their families and communities against COVID-19.

“We’re launching Vax The East to support communities with lower COVID-19 vaccination rates and bring vaccines close to home for thousands of Toronto’s east-end residents. This is another example of how all of our Team Toronto partners are working together to help people have the best protection possible against COVID-19. I encourage everyone to come out this weekend and get vaccinated and participate in the fun activities Team Toronto has planned for these events.”

– Mayor John Tory

Vax The East: Scarborough

Running from Valentine’s Day to Family Day, “Vax The East: Scarborough” will roll out mobile vaccination clinics in schools across Scarborough. The eight-day effort will see five to six local schools visited by mobile teams each day with vaccines available for eligible students, staff, parents and the wider community. More information on the clinics is available at scarbvaccine.ca .

Vax The East equity and inclusion

Following in the footsteps of Team Toronto’s Toronto Vaccine Day, Toronto Kids Vaccine Day and the recent success of the hyper-local Vax The Northwest event, the Vax The East team is working hard to deliver unique and fun vaccination opportunities where kids and parents feel safe and comfortable. All clinics will be fully accessible.

Through Vaccine Engagement Teams and community health partners, ambassadors will be reaching out to residents directly to help book appointments and share translated flyers with clinic and vaccine information in multiple languages including Urdu, Gujarati, Dari, Farsi, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Tagalog, Bengali, Slovak, Tigrinya and Amharic. The City’s VaxTO program will also send broadcast voice messages to promote the clinic and provide access to vaccination information to thousands of local residents this week.

Vax The East is a collaboration between the City of Toronto, Toronto Public Health, Michael Garron Hospital, East Toronto Health Partners, Scarborough Health Network, Scarborough Ontario Health Team partners, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, TTC, Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) and Team Toronto partners to support communities with lower COVID-19 vaccination rates. More information about vaccination options across the city is available on the City’s COVID-19: How to Get Vaccinated.

More details about Vax The East media opportunities will be shared this week and next.

Those looking for the latest updates are encouraged to follow #VaxTheEast for updates from Vax The East partners and @CityofToronto, the City’s Twitter .

SOURCE City of Toronto

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