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April 26th 2021
Vaccine Rollout Based on Jurisdiction
Summary
Ø This document is meant to be a compilation of various government website information pertaining to announced and published
individual jurisdictions’ vaccine rollout plans. It is only current based on the date indicated on this document. When in doubt
please check the weblink to each jurisdiction’s website, contained in the following pages, for new information not yet
incorporated.
Ø Northwest Territories was one of the first jurisdiction to fully prioritize, in the early stages of vaccine rollouts, individuals with
intellectual or developmental disabilities who are living in their own home or with families and their support workers. Their criteria
is the “gold-standard” for people with disabilities and has been included in Phase 2 (current stage). Their criteria states:
“Residents aged 18+ living with disabilities (intellectual or physical) and their caregivers”.
Ø Quebec has included people with Down Syndrome, people with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder as of April
22. As of April 28, everyone who has a physical or intellectual disability will be able to make an appointment. This includes
people with speech, language, visual, auditory impairments, or autism. The appointments can be made either in a vaccination
clinic or in a pharmacy. For this group, one caregiver per eligible person can sign up as well for a vaccination.
Ø Ontario has included specific mention of individuals with Intellectual or developmental disabilities (with the example of Down
Syndrome) under individuals with high-risk conditions but have included them in the vaccine rollout timeframe for general mass
delivery.
Ø British Columbia specifies under clinically and extremely vulnerable “adults 16-69 with very significant developmental
disabilities for Phase 3 (April to May). All British Columbians can now register for their vaccine.
Ø Saskatchewan (Phase 2: April-June 2021) adults with very significant developmental disabilities with increased risk but are less
specific in their classification or definition.
Ø Alberta (Phase 2B: Starting March 30), prioritized people age 18-64 with underlying health conditions which includes people with
severe or profound learning disabilities or severe developmental delay (individuals with Down syndrome, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder, cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorder and others)April 26th 2021
Ø Newfoundland specifies individuals who are “clinically extremely vulnerable” for Phase 2 - People ages 16 to 59 who are
clinically extremely vulnerable (as defined in the COVID-19 Immunization Plan). This includes adults with very significant
developmental disabilities who cannot perform most activities of daily living (e.g. dressing, grooming, toileting, feeding, etc.)
Ø Prince Edward Island priority group includes adults with “very significant developmental disabilities that increase risk” in Phase
2 (starting April 2021)
Ø New Brunswick: starting in March 2021, people with people with Down Syndrome and people with severe and profound
intellectual/developmental disability are able to get vaccinated.
Ø Most provinces and territories have prioritized long term care residents and staff and other congregate living facilities and
designated supported living facilities.
Ø Some provinces and territories have prioritized home care workers but unclear if personal support workers fall into this definition.
Ø Manitoba’s stages include congregate living facility residents and licensed personal care homes. Future plans of general
population vaccination rollout indicated it will be age-based approached by oldest age cohorts first with no priority given to
underlying health conditions.
Ø Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has provided guidance to provincial and territorial governments and health
organizations ( Vaccines and treatments for COVID-19: Vaccine rollout - Canada.ca ). Provinces and territories have developed detailed
vaccination rollout plans for their residents. PHAC guidance for priorities for early COVID-19 vaccination is as follows:
o residents and staff of shared living settings who provide care for seniors
o adults 70 years of age and older, with order of priority:
o beginning with adults 80 years of age and older
o decreasing the age limit by 5-year increments to age 70 years as supply becomes available
o health care workers who have direct contact with patients, including:
o those who work in health care settings
o personal support workers
o adults in Indigenous communities
o As additional COVID-19 vaccine(s) and supplies become available, the following populations should be offered vaccinations:
o health care workers not included in the initial rollout.April 26th 2021
o residents and staff of all other shared living settings, such as:
o homeless shelters
o correctional facilities
o housing for migrant workers
o essential workers who face additional risks to maintain services for the functioning of societyApril 26th 2021
British Columbia: Vaccine Rollout Plan - As of April 24th all British Columbians can register for their vaccine
Phase 1: Dec 2020- Phase 2: Feb-April Phase 3: April-May 2021 Phase 4: May-
Feb 2021 2021 June 2021
Population: Population: Population:
Population:
• Residents and staff • Seniors aged 80 • People aged 79 to 60, in five-year increments:
of long-term care and over who are
• People
facilities not immunized in - 79 to 75 (D1 April) aged 59 to 18,
• Individuals Phase 1 - 74 to 70 (D1 April) in five-year
assessed for and • Indigenous (First - 69 to 65 (D1 April) increments:
awaiting long-term Nations, Métis, and - 64 to 60 (D1 April) - 59 to 55
care Inuit) seniors age - 54 to 50
• Residents and staff 65 and • Indigenous (First Nations, Metis and Inuit) peoples aged - 49 to 45
of assisted living over, Elders and 64 to 18 (D1 April) - 44 to 40
residences additional • People aged 74 to 16 who are clinically extremely - 39 to 35
• Essential visitors to Indigenous vulnerable (D1 April): - 34 to 30
long-term communities not - 29 to 25
care facilities and immunized in - Adults with very significant developmental disabilities - 24 to 18
assisted Phase 1 that increase risk:
living residences • Hospital staff, o You have a significant developmental disability,
• Hospital health care community general such as adults with Down’s Syndrome and
workers who may practitioners (GPs) other conditions, that is significant enough that
provide care for and medical you require support for activities of daily living
COVID-19 patients specialists not and you use or receive support from:
in settings like immunized in Community Supports for Independent Living
Intensive Care Phase 1 (CSIL), Community Living British Columbia
Units, emergencyApril 26th 2021
departments, • Vulnerable (CLBC), and Nursing Support Services program
paramedics, populations living for youth aged 16 to 19
medical units, and and working in - Solid organ transplant recipients
surgical units select congregated - People with specific cancers:
• Remote and settings o People with cancer who are undergoing active
isolated Indigenous • Staff in community chemotherapy
communities home support and o People with lung cancer who are undergoing
nursing services radical radiotherapy
for seniors o People with cancers of the blood or bone marrow
such as leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are
at any stage of treatment
o People having immunotherapy or other continuing
antibody treatments for cancer
o People having other targeted cancer treatments
that can affect the immune system, such as protein
kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors
o People who have had bone marrow or stem cell
transplants in the last six months or who are still
taking immunosuppression drugs
- People with severe respiratory conditions including all
cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and severe chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- People with rare diseases that significantly increase
the risk of infections (such as severe combined
immunodeficiency (SCID), homozygous sickle cell
disease)
- People on immunosuppression therapies sufficient to
significantly increase risk of infection (biologicApril 26th 2021
modifiers, high dose steroids, AZT,
cyclophosphamide)
- People who had their spleen removed
- Adults with very significant developmental disabilities
that increase risk
- Adults on dialysis or with chronic kidney disease
(stage 5)
- Women who are pregnant with significant heart
disease, congenital or acquired
- Significant neuromuscular conditions requiring
respiratory supportApril 26th 2021
Yukon: Vaccine Rollout Plan
Phase 1: Jan 4th, 2021 Phase 2: Jan 13th 2021 Phase 3: Feb 10th-
March 22nd
2021
Population: Population: Population:
• Long-term care residents and staff at • High-risk health care staff in Whitehorse, including Whitehorse • Anyone
Whistle Bend Place, Thomson Centre, General Hospital staff eligible, age 18
and other Continuing Care staff • Whitehorse clinic opens with priority given to high-risk and and older in
• Long-term care residents and staff at vulnerable populations People living in Watson Lake Whitehorse.
Copper Ridge, and Birch Lodge (including Upper Liard and Lower Post residents), Beaver Capacity will be
• Homebound home care clients, and Creek, Old Crow based on
other Continuing Care staff • Continuation of high-risk and vulnerable populations included vaccine
• Long-term care residents and staff at the previous week in Whitehorse. People living in Dawson availability
McDonald Lodge and high-risk health City, Carcross and Tagish, Teslin, Pelly Crossing February 1 -
care staff in Dawson City 6
• High-risk health care staff from • Continuation of Whitehorse clinic with priority given to high-
Whitehorse General Hospital risk and vulnerable populations. People living in: Burwash
Landing and Destruction Bay, Haines Junction, Carmacks,
Faro, Mayo, Ross RiverApril 26th 2021
Northwest Territories: Vaccine Rollout Plan
Phase 1: Dec 2020- Jan 2021 Phase 2: Beginning March 1st 2021
Population: Population:
• Long term care residents • Priority populations previously announced
• All eligible residents 18 years and older in • Resident essential frontline workers aged 18+ who interact directly with the
community (schedule found here) public and are unable to work virtually in: schools, day homes and
• All priority populations as defined by the daycares, hotels, grocery stores, drugstores, banks, libraries, postal
OCPHO including those 60 years and over service, liquor stores, gas stations and convenience stores, customer
those who have existing multiple medical service agents at airports, media
conditions, those who travel outside of the NT • Residents aged 60+
regularly for medical care, those who are at risk • Residents aged 18+ who are immunocompromised from underlying medical
of transmitting COVID to those at high risk (ex.
conditions or medications
Healthcare workers, those who provide care to
high-risk populations), resident workers (ex. • Residents aged 18+ living with obesity (BMI of 40 or higher)
Mine workers). • Residents aged 18+ living with disabilities (intellectual or physical) and their
caregivers
• Residents aged 18+ who are primary caregivers for those at high risk of
severe disease of COVID-19
• Residents aged 18+ travelling outside the NWT for any medical reason on
or before March 31, 2021April 26th 2021
• Residents aged 18+ with one or more of the following chronic medical
conditions: heart, kidney, liver, or lung disease (including asthma),
hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, dementia, stroke
• Resident workers aged 18+ who interact directly with people from outside
the NWT: Mine workers, medevac pilots or flight crew, winter road support
staff, Isolation centre staff, taxi and bus drivers, workers in mineral and
petroleum resources industry
• Resident frontline workers who interact directly with the public: Health care
providers and allied health care workers, emergency responders,
enforcement (Federal and municipal), Canadian Armed Forces, clients and
staff of correctional facilities, shelters, or other group settings with shared
overnight accommodations
• Anyone 18+ with CPHO Approval Letter
Nunavut: Vaccine Rollout PlanApril 26th 2021
Phase 1: present time-March 2021 Phase 2: unknown at this time
Population: Population:
• Anyone over the age of 18 • Those under the age of 18
• Priority population: people at the most risk of severe disease such
as residents in long-term care and their caregivers
Alberta: Vaccine Rollout Plan
Early Phase: Phase 1: Phase 2A: Phase 2B: Started Phase 2C: Phase 2D: May Phase 3:
Dec 2020 Started Started March 30 Started April May-June
January March 15 12
Population: Population: Population: Population: Population: Population: Population
• Respiratory • • •
• Immunizations Albertans Albertans aged • Shelter staff • Phase 2 is Anticipated
therapists born 1947 to 18 to 64 with start of
were offered and residents broken into 4
• Health-care 1956 high-risk roll-out to
to key • Correctional groups.
workers in (turning 65 underlying Vaccinations the
populations, facility staff and
intensive to 74), no health for Group general
with a focus inmates
care units matter conditions: public
on acute care • Physicians, D will begin
• Health-care where they including severe once Group
sites with the nurses,
workers in live or profound C has been
highest pharmacists,
COVID-19 learning dentists and all completed.April 26th 2021
capacity emergency • First disabilities or other health Timelines are
concerns in departments Nations, severe care subject to
Edmonton • Health-care Métis and developmental professionals change
and Calgary: workers in Inuit (FNMI) delay and their office depending on
• Health-care COVID-19 people born (individuals with or support staff supply. Details
workers in units, 1971 or Down who provide in- on how to get
intensive care medical and earlier syndrome, Fetal person, direct the vaccine
units surgical (turning Alcohol patient care will be
• Respiratory units, and 50+), no Spectrum • Individuals released prior
therapists operating matter Disorder, working in to each group.
• Staff in long rooms where they cerebral palsy, patient care
term care and • Paramedics live autism spectrum facilities or
designated and • Staff and disorder and providing
supportive emergency residents of others) services
living facilities medical licensed directly to
responders seniors clients in the
• Staff in long supportive community for
term care living Alberta Health
and facilities not Services,
designated included in Covenant
supportive Phase 1 Health, Alberta
living Precision Labs,
facilities DynaLife, and
• Home care students
workers undertaking
• All residents placement
of long term practicums in
care and clinical areaApril 26th 2021
designated • Healthcare
supportive workers on Group D
living, First Nation
regardless of reserves and • Albertans born
age Metis 1957 to 1971
• First Nations, Settlements (turning 50 to
Inuit, Métis 64).
and persons
65 years of
age and over • First Nations,
living in a Métis and Inuit
First Nations (FNMI)
community or persons born
Metis 1972 to 1986
Settlement (turning 35 to
• Seniors 75 49), no matter
years of age where they
and over, no live.
matter where
they live
• Albertans 50
– 64 who
don’t have a
severe
chronic
illness
(AstraZeneca
vaccine)April 26th 2021
April 26th 2021
Saskatchewan: Vaccine Rollout Plan
Phase 1: Dec 2020 – March 2021 Phase 2: April-June 2021
Population: Population:
• Long-term care and personal care home • Focused on vaccinating the general population in 10-year increments: 60-
residents and staff. 69, 50-59, 40-49, 30-39, 18-29.
• Health care workers in emergency • Young adults ages 16-17 who are considered clinically extremely vulnerable
departments, intensive care units, COVID-19 • Targeted vaccinations to select congregate living: group homes for persons
wards and COVID testing and assessment with intellectual disabilities, emergency shelters
staff, respiratory therapists; code blue and • People with underlying health conditions that are clinically extremely
trauma teams; and EMS, road and air vulnerable:
transport teams. • Solid organ transplant recipients.
• Residents 70 years and older in all • People with specific cancers:
communities o People with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy.
• Residents over the age of 50 living in o People with lung cancer who are undergoing radical radiotherapy.
remote/Northern Saskatchewan. o People with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukemia,
• Additional health care workers included in lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment.
priority sequencing for Phase 1 as announced o People having immunotherapy or other continuing antibody
February 16, 2021. These additional workers treatments for cancer.
include: o People having other targeted cancer treatments that can affect the
o Individuals directly involved in delivering immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors.
COVID-19 immunizations in Phase 2 o People who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last
including physicians (up to 2,600), six months or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs.
pharmacists (up to 1,200) and other • People with severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe
asthma and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).April 26th 2021
SHA health care providers involved in • People with rare diseases that significantly increase the risk of infections
delivering COVID-19 immunizations; (such as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), homozygous sickle
o Anesthesia/operating rooms; cell disease).
o All other critical care areas; • People on immunosuppression therapies sufficient to significantly increase
o Hemodialysis; risk of infection (biologic modifiers, high dose steroids, AZT,
o Vaccination teams; cyclophosphamide).
o Radiology technicians; • People who had their spleen removed.
o ECG/echo; • Adults with very significant developmental disabilities with increased
o Phlebotomy/lab workers handling risk.
COVID-19 specimens; and • Adults on dialysis or with chronic kidney disease (stage 5).
o Home care (direct care providers). • Women who are pregnant with significant heart disease, congenital or
acquired.
• Significant neuromuscular conditions requiring respiratory support.April 26th 2021
Manitoba: The province is first prioritizing health-care workers in direct contact with patients, residents in high-risk congregate living facilities
and adults in Indigenous communities. Eligibility for the vaccine will then take an age-based approach, working its way from older ages through
the younger ones. The plan does not make mention of underlying health conditions as a factor in who takes priority for immunization. (Vaccine
Rollout Plan)
Stage 1: Started in December 2020 Stage 2: anticipated to start Stage 3 Stage 4
in April, 2021
Healthcare workers who provide direct Healthcare workers who All staff (including those All healthcare
patient care in: provide direct patient care without direct patient workers
• Critical Care Units of any age in: care) in: who work
• Designated COVID 19 wards • Acute Care facilities • Acute care facilities in a health
• • Primary care clinics care
Emergency Departments & Urgent • Paramedics
• Dental clinics facility
Care Departments • Home Care Healthcare • Specialty physician
• Long-term Care Facilities workers over age 60 who clinics
• Correctional Facilities provide direct patient • Diagnostic Imaging
• Emergency Shelters care in: • Outpatient labs
• CLDS & CFS Group Homes • Primary care clinics
Healthcare Workers • Outpatient surgical
• Paramedics (born before 1975) • Dental clinics
and Congregate programs
• Acute care facilities (born before • Elderly day programs
Living Staff • Specialty physician clinics
1975) • Home care
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Home care (born before 1975) All staff in congregate
• Outpatient laboratories
• Laboratory workers who handle living facilities
• Outpatient surgical
COVID-19 specimens Healthcare
workers in designated COVID-19 programs
testing clinics and COVID-19 • Elderly day programs
immunization clinics
All staff (including those without
direct patient care) in:
• Licensed Personal Care
HomesApril 26th 2021
All staff over 60 (including
those without direct patient
care) in:
• Congregate living facilities
Congregate Living Residents of licensed Personal Care Residents of high and Residents of all
Facilities Residents Homes, Residents of high-risk moderate risk congregate congregate living
congregate living facilities living facilities facilities not reached
in Stage 1/2
General Population Population over age 80 Population over age 60 Population
over age
18April 26th 2021
Ontario: Vaccine Rollout Plan
Phase 1: Dec 2020-March 2021 Phase 2: April- July 2021 Phase 3: August 2021
and beyond
Population: Population: Population:
• Early doses: residents of long- • Older adults: those turning 40 or older in 2021 • Remaining
term care homes, high-risk • People ages 18-49 in hotspots Ontarians in the
retirement homes, First Nations • People who live and work in high-risk congregate settings: general population
elder care homes. Supportive housing, developmental services or intervenor and who wish to be
• Immediate priority: staff, supported independent living, emergency homeless shelters, vaccinated will
essential caregivers and any homeless populations not in shelters, mental health and receive the
residents that have not yet addictions congregate settings, homes for special care, on- vaccine.
received a first dose in: farm temporary foreign workers, adult correctional facilities,
o long-term care homes violence against women (VAW) shelters and anti-human
o high-risk retirement trafficking (AHT) residents, children’s residential facilities,
homes youth justice facilities, Indigenous healing and wellness
o First Nations elder care facilities, bail beds and Indigenous bail beds, provincial and
homes demonstration schools
- alternative level of care • Essential frontline workers who cannot work from home:
patients in hospitals who Elementary and secondary school staff, Police, fire,
have a confirmed admission compliance, funeral, special constables and other workers
to a long-term care home, responding to critical events, Childcare and licensed foster
retirement home or other care workers, food manufacturing workers, agriculture and
congregate care home for farm workers, high-risk and critical retail workers in grocery
seniors stores and pharmacies, remaining manufacturing labourers,
social workers, including youth justice, courts and justiceApril 26th 2021
- health care workers system workers, including probation and parole, lower-risk
identified as highest priority, retail workers (wholesalers, general goods), transportation,
followed by very high priority, warehousing and distribution, energy, telecom (data and
in the Ministry of Health’s voice), water and wastewater management, financial services,
guidance on Health Care waste management, mining, oil and gas workers
Worker Prioritization (PDF) • Individuals with high-risk chronic conditions: Organ
- Indigenous adults in northern transplant recipients, hematopoietic stem cell transplant
remote and higher risk recipients, neurological diseases in which respiratory function
communities (on-reserve and may be compromised, haematological malignancy diagnosed
urban) within the last year, kidney disease with estimated glomerular
• Next Priority: adults 80 years of filtration rate (eGFR) under 30, obesity (BMI over 40), other
age and older, staff, residents treatments causing immunosuppression (for example,
and caregivers in retirement chemotherapy, immunity-weakening medications), intellectual
homes and other congregate or developmental disabilities (for example, Down Syndrome),
care settings for seniors (for immune deficiencies and autoimmune disorders, stroke and
example, assisted living), health cerebrovascular disease, dementia, diabetes, liver disease, all
care workers identified as the other cancers, respiratory diseases, spleen problems, heart
high priority level in the Ministry disease, hypertension with end organ damage, diagnosed
of Health’s guidance on Health mental disorder, substance use disorders, thalassemia,
Care Worker Prioritization pregnancy, immunocompromising health conditions, other
(PDF), all Indigenous adults, disabilities requiring direct support care in the community
adult recipients of chronic home • Primary Caregivers: Organ transplant recipients,
care hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients, neurological
diseases in which respiratory function may be compromised,
haematological malignancy diagnosed within the last year,
kidney disease with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)
under 30April 26th 2021
• Caregivers in select congregate care settings:
Developmental services, mental health and addictions
congregate settings, homes for special care, children’s
residential facilities, Indigenous healing and wellness facilities
• Communities at greater risk: Black and other racialized
populations, hot spots with historic and ongoing high rates of
death, hospitalization and transmissionApril 26th 2021
Quebec: Vaccine Rollout Plan
Phase 1: present time Phase 2:
unknown at
this time
Population: Population:
• Vulnerable people and people with a significant loss of autonomy who live in residential and long-term care • Rest of
centres (CHSLDs) or in intermediate and family-type resources (RI-RTFs). population
• Workers in the health and social services network who have contact with users.
• Autonomous or semi-autonomous people who live in private seniors' homes (RPAs) or in certain closed
residential facilities for older adults.
• Isolated and remote communities.
• People 80 years of age or older.
• People 70 to 79 years of age.
• People 60 to 69 years of age.
• Adults under 60 years of age who have a chronic disease or health problem that increases the risk of
complications of COVID-19. Chronic disease of health problems include: kidney failure requiring dialysis,
severe immunosuppression, chemotherapy or radiation therapy for cancer, severe heart disease, severe lung
disease, obesity, diabetes, sickle cell anemic, Down syndrome, cognitive impairment, intellectual disability or
autism spectrum disorder.
o As of April 28, everyone who has a physical or intellectual disability will be able to make an appointment. This
includes people with speech, language, visual, auditory impairments or autism. The appointments can be made
either in a vaccination clinic or in a pharmacy. For this group, one caregiver per eligible person can sign up as
well. See link below:
o Chronic diseases and health problems targeted for vaccination against COVID-19 | Gouvernement du Québec
(quebec.ca)April 26th 2021
• Adults under 60 years of age who do not have a chronic disease or health problem that increases the risk of
complications, but who provide essential services and have contact with users.
New Brunswick: Vaccine Rollout Plan
Phase 1: March 2021 Phase 2: April -May 2021 Phase 3: June 2021
Population: Population: Population:
• Ages: • Ages: • Ages:
o 85 and over o 70 to 74 o 50 to 59
o 80 to 84 o 65 to 69 *now eligible o 40 to 49
o 75 to 79 o 60 to 64 o 30 to 39
• Workers who regularly travel across the border, o Individuals ages 40 – 59 o 20 to 29
including daily commuters, truckers and rotational with three (3) or more o 16 to 19
workers select chronic medical
• Health-care workers and health system staff *now conditions • Large employers
eligible
• Individuals with complex medical conditions, • Home Care Workers
including people with Down Syndrome and people • Large employers (including public
with severe and profound intellectual/developmental school system)
disability • Extra-Mural patients (housebound
/ unable to travel)
• First responders, including:
o Paramedics
o FirefightersApril 26th 2021 o Police Officers o Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) o Wildfire management o Emergency Management Operations / Regional Emergency Management Operations o WorkSafeNB Inspectors o Public Health Inspectors
April 26th 2021
Nova Scotia: Vaccine Rollout Plan
Phase 1: Unknown at this time Phase 2: Unknown at this time Phase 3: Unknown
at this time
Population: initial doses and Population: expanding access Population: all Nova
planning Scotians
• anyone who works in a hospital and may come into contact with
• healthcare workers who work patients • By age group:
directly with patients in hospital • community healthcare providers, including doctors, nurses, dentists, - 70 to 74
or patients in their home dental hygienists, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians - 65 to 69
• people who work in long-term • people who live in large group settings (correctional facilities, - 60 to 64
care facilities shelters and temporary foreign worker housing) and those who work - 55 to 59
• people who live in long-term directly with them - 50 to 54
care facilities and their • people who are required to regularly travel in and out of the province - 45 to 49
designated caregivers for work, like truck drivers and rotational workers (people who live in - 40 to 44
• people who live and work in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick and cross the border every day for - 35 to 39
Department of Community work are not included in this group) - 30 to 34
Services facilities like adult • people who are responsible for food security and can’t maintain - 25 to 29
residential care centres and public health measures because of the nature of their work (like - 16 to 24
regional rehabilitation centres large food processing plants)
• people who are 80 and older
• people who are 75 to 79April 26th 2021
Prince Edward Island: Vaccine Rollout Plan
Phase 1: Dec 2020-March 2021 Phase 2: April- June 2021 Phase 3: Summer-Fall 2021
Population: Population: Population:
• 2nd vaccine dose for
• Residents and staff of long-term and community care • Anyone in priority groups individuals in Phase 2 (16
• Health care workers with direct patient contact at remaining from Phase 1, weeks after first dose)
higher risk of COVID-19 exposure including frontline health care • Additional youth 15 years
• Seniors 80 years of age and older workers old and younger as
• Adults 18 years of age and older living in Indigenous • First responders (e.g. police, vaccines are approved for
communities firefighters, power utility workers) their age categories
• Residents and staff of other residential or shared living • Indigenous adults not immunized
facilities (e.g., group homes, residential care, shelters, in Phase 1
corrections) • Individuals with underlying
• Truck drivers and other rotational workers medical conditions (by age),
including adults with very
significant developmental
disabilities that increase risk
• April: Adults over 30
• May: youth age 16-17 and adults
over 18April 26th 2021
April 26th 2021
Newfoundland: Vaccine Rollout Plan
Phase 1: Unknown at this time Phase 2: in progress Phase 3: unknown at
this time
Population: Population: Population:
• Congregate living settings for • Adults 70 years of age and older, starting with those 80 years • Once most
seniors. and older individuals in high-
• Health care workers* at high risk • Adults who identify as First Nations, Inuit or Métis risk priority groups
of exposure to COVID-19, and • Staff, residents, and essential visitors at congregate living have been
those who are directly involved in settings (shelters, group homes, transition houses, correctional immunized, the
the pandemic response. facilities, and children or youth residential settings) vaccine will be
• Adults 85 years of age and older • Adults 60 to 69 years of age offered to the
• Adults in remote or isolated • Adults in marginalized populations where infection could have general public. It is
Indigenous communities. disproportionate consequences (e.g. people experiencing anticipated that
homelessness or with precarious housing arrangements) enough vaccines will
• First responders (including career and volunteer firefighters, be available to
* Health care workers include staff in
police officers, border services, and search and rescue crew) vaccinate everyone
acute care, long-term care, personal
• Frontline health care workers who were not immunized in in Canada by fall
care homes, and community,
Phase 1 and who may come into direct contact with patients 2021.
including home care workers,
working in the following settings: (includes private health care workers)
COVID-19 testing and assessments; • People ages 16 to 59 who are clinically extremely
emergency departments and labour vulnerable (as defined in the COVID-19 Immunization Plan
and delivery rooms (case rooms); and following consultation with their health care provider). This
COVID-19 immunization programs; includes adults with very significant developmental disabilitiesApril 26th 2021
COVID-19 units; and, critical care who cannot perform most activities of daily living (e.g.
units. dressing, grooming, toileting, feeding, etc.)
• People who are required to regularly travel in and out of the
province for work, including truck drivers and other rotational
workers;
• Frontline essential workers who have direct contact with the
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