By Shaun Penner

Walk-in doses

Walk-in vaccine appointments for first doses available in Grande Prairie through Friday

Jun 9, 2021 | 9:36 AM

Those looking to get their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine will be able to do so without an appointment the rest of this week at the Montrose Cultural Centre.

Alberta Health Services says the vaccine clinic in Grande Prairie will be taking walk-ins Wednesday, June 9 through Friday, June 11 during clinic hours, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Doses will be given on a first come, first serve basis.

Appointments can also be booked through the AHS website, through participating pharmacies or by calling Health Link at 811.

This comes after Premier Jason Kenney said Monday that thousands more first doses needed to be given out in Alberta for Stage 3 of the “Open for Summer” plan to be reached.

That final stage of the reopening plan, which would see most all public health restrictions lifted, would be reached two weeks after 70 per cent of eligible Albertans had received at least one dose of vaccine.

READ MORE: Thousands more first doses of vaccine needed for Alberta to fully reopen: Kenney

In Alberta 2,550,015 Albertans have received at least one dose of vaccine as of June 7, which accounts for 67 per cent of all Albertans 12 and older.

Grande Prairie does lag behind the provincial total. In the City, 49.6 per cent of eligible residents have had their first dose as of June 7, totalling 30,903 people.