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Peterborough Public Health Temporarily Reducing Services to Focus on Local COVID-19 Response

Staff Redeployed to Increase Local Vaccination Effort

Peterborough Public Health is temporarily redeploying most of its staff to increase vaccination clinic capacity and support the local response to the COVID-19 Omicron variant. This will result in several public health services being paused or reduced effective Friday, December 17, 2021.

“Recent data shows the highly-transmissible Omicron variant will cause a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases, and predicts significant impact on the capacity of our...

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Public Advisory - Potential COVID-19 Omicron Exposure at American Eagle Store in Peterborough

Residents Advised of Potential COVID-19 Omicron Exposure at American Eagle Store in Peterborough Symptomatic Patrons Asked to Get PCR Tested and Self-Isolate

Peterborough Public Health is advising patrons of the American Eagle store in Lansdowne Place Mall in Peterborough of a potential exposure to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 that occurred there from Friday, December 10 to Saturday, December 11 between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. both days.

Peterborough Public Health is asking anyone who visited...

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All Ontarians 18+ Eligible for COVID-19 Booster at 3-month Interval

To protect our progress and safeguard hospital and ICU capacity from Omicron, Ontario is expanding booster eligibility to all individuals 18+ starting Monday. In addition, the interval will be shortened to three months after an individual’s second dose.

News Release All Ontarians 18+ eligible for COVID1-19 Booster Appointments at Thee Month Interval

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Peterborough Public Health looking support for vaccine clinics

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Peterborough Public Health is in the process of rapidly expanding COVID-19 vaccine clinics to accommodate eligible residents to receive their COVID-19 booster dose as soon as possible. With this expansion, PPH is looking for additional staff and volunteers to assist in clinic delivery. We are looking to immediately fill the following positions,

• Vaccinators (this could be any health care provider who is licensed to administer vaccines)
• Administrative support
• Volunteers 

Vaccine clinics...

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