COVID-19: After early hiccups, child vaccination booking back online in Saskatchewan
Global News
The SHA said their online booking website for pediatric vaccinations crashed for about a half hour due to "high traffic" Tuesday morning.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) says that as of 1 p.m, more than 12,000 vaccination appointments had been booked for youth aged five to 11.
Those vaccinations are scheduled to begin tomorrow across the province, including in more than 110 schools as well as through specialized clinics for children with additional needs.
The province’s pediatric vaccination debut wasn’t without its hiccups, though, as the booking website went down for around half an hour shortly after launching due to “high traffic”.
“We did experience some difficulties with our online booking system this morning,” said SHA’s Emergency Operation Centre Vaccine Chief Sheila Anderson Tuesday morning.
“There was about a 30-minute down time related to high traffic on the site. The system was down and when it was down the public would have experienced an error message, but it’s been resolved and the system is operating now as expected.”
Anderson said that while the SHA will be monitoring the system closely, they “doesn’t expect” there to be any further booking issues on the site.
She said there are currently more than 40,000 available appointments.