Physicians and medical teams working to treat COVID-19 patients are among the latest wave of people eligible to receive a vaccine in the London region. New doses have arrived, according to the Middlesex London Health Unit, which said Tuesday it can now expand the inoculation list. Frontline health care workers whom the province considers "highest priority" now qualify, as do employees at long-term care and retirement homes and essential caregivers. 2:59The health unit says there are now enough doses to ensure the second shot is given within 35 days of the first. All told, the health unit says some 25,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to residents in long-term care and high-risk retirement homes, as well as select healthcare staff.

Source: CBC News February 16, 2021 19:29 UTC