{"id":4958,"date":"2024-03-18T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2024-03-18T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T19:41:39","slug":"high-risk-groups-can-now-book-spring-covid-19-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/high-risk-groups-can-now-book-spring-covid-19-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"High-risk groups can now book spring COVID-19 vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People considered to have the highest risk for severe illness from COVID-19 can now <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/vaccination\" rel=\"noopener\">make an appointment online<\/a> for a spring dose of the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The dose will be available from March&nbsp;25 to May&nbsp;31.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are eligible to book for the vaccination include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People aged 65 or older;<\/li>\n<li>People aged 18 and older living in long-term care, nursing homes, senior congregate living settings or residential care facilities;<\/li>\n<li>People who are six months and older who meet the criteria for being moderately to severely immunocompromised due to an underlying condition or treatment;<\/li>\n<li>People aged 50&nbsp;years and older who identify as Black, African Nova Scotian or First Nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People considered to have the highest risk for severe illness from COVID-19 can now <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/vaccination\" rel=\"noopener\">make an appointment online<\/a> for a spring dose of the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The dose will be available from March&nbsp;25 to May&nbsp;31.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are eligible to book for the vaccination include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People aged 65 or older;<\/li>\n<li>People aged 18 and older living in long-term care, nursing homes, senior congregate living settings or residential care facilities;<\/li>\n<li>People who are six months and older who meet the criteria for being moderately to severely immunocompromised due to an underlying condition or treatment;<\/li>\n<li>People aged 50&nbsp;years and older who identify as Black, African Nova Scotian or First Nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/high-risk-groups-can-now-book-spring-covid-19-vaccination\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High-risk groups can now book spring COVID-19 vaccination<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,218,14,320,15],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-nova-scotia","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4961,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}