Ontario stops increased vaccine supply to Toronto hot spots as city officials urge province to reconsider – CBC

Province will return to allocating doses by population in last 2 weeks of May

May 12, 2021

Next week, Ontario will stop sending 50 per cent of its COVID-19 vaccine supply to hot spot neighbourhoods, instead allocating doses evenly across the province.

But Toronto officials say the hot-spot strategy is a success story that needs to continue.

In April, the provincial government began targeting communities with high rates of COVID-19 infections — the majority in Toronto — by supplying them with 25 per cent of doses.

It ramped up that effort in the first two weeks of May to 50 per cent of doses.

By May 10, 53.2 per cent of people over 18 years of age in hot spots had received at least one dose, compared to 46.9 per cent of people in lower risk neighbourhoods, according to provincial data released Wednesday.

Ontario stops increased vaccine supply to Toronto hot spots as city officials urge province to reconsider – CBC

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