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Mayor Watson pushing province for COVID-19 vaccines in Ottawa pharmacies
COVID-19 vaccination rollout in more pharmacies across Ontario.Jim Watson told reporters Wednesday afternoon that he and Keith Egli, chair of the Ottawa Board of Health, sent a letter to the province’s health minister asking for Ottawa pharmacies to get shipments of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for distribution locally.He said he had heard “rumblings” through informal discussions with provincial officials that three Ottawa pharmacies could be added to the distribution campaign, but added that the city would need “dozens more.”Watson said that pharmacies and primary-care physicians will need to play a meaningful role in the vaccine rollout locally, given Ottawa’s geographic size relative to more densely populated regions to the south.