Ontario will release its plan for expanded fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose eligibility and update its testing strategy at an announcement on Wednesday. Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr.
Kieran Moore will speak about when adults 18 to 59 can access fourth COVID-19 shots.
Unlike Quebec, the United States and several other provinces, Ontario does not allow health-care workers and non-immunocompromised adults to get fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccine.Eligibility includes residents of congregate care, a select grouping of immune-suppressive conditions, Indigenous people and anyone 60 years old and over.
But Ontario and the rest of the nation is already in a wave this summer driven by the BA.5 subvariant of coronavirus.
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