The Saskatchewan Health Authority announced that the drive-through COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Regina is now closed until more vaccines are delivered.
The clinic closed Monday evening around 5 p.m. after immunizers administered the last of the AstraZeneca doses delivered earlier in March.
Saskatchewan received 15,500 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine and began providing them to the public on March 15. A press release from the SHA said that the drive-through site reached its target of administering 2,000 vaccines a day.
“We want to thank everyone for your patience, positivity and feedback as we set up the first immunization drive-thru in the province," said Laveena Tratch, SHA's vaccine chief for Regina's Integrated Health Incident Command, in a press release. “We've been able to refine the process first established with drive-thru testing and have taken those valuable lessons learned to share with other drive-thru planning teams. We've even had other provinces asking about what we've done and learned."
Public health said the closure is temporary, and the clinic will reopen once more vaccines are obtained. At the time of its closure, residents aged 58 and older were eligible to receive an AstraZeneca vaccine from the clinic.
For more information on vaccine administration in Saskatchewan, visit saskatchewan.ca/COVID19-vaccine.
