Over 90% of eligible Waterloo Region residents have had 1 dose of COVID-19 vaccine
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Waterloo Public Health reported that 90.04 per cent of eligible Waterloo Region residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Waterloo Public Health reported that 90.04 per cent of eligible Waterloo Region residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
This number falls to 77.53 per cent when including those who are ineligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
The agency says that 85.79 per cent of all residents have had two jabs of vaccine, which drops to 73.88 per cent of the population when the ineligible are included.
Waterloo Public Health says that 435,053 residents are now fully vaccinated, 847 more than it reported on Wednesday.
Once another 21,328 residents are fully vaccinated, the region will reach the 90 per cent mark.
On the flip side, there were another 14 positive tests reported in Waterloo Region, lifting the total number of COVID-19 cases in the area to 19,875.
This drops the rolling seven-day average number of new cases to 12.9.
Another 20 people were also cleared of the virus, lifting the total number of resolved cases in the area to 19,461.