{"id":9962,"date":"2026-09-28T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9962"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:22:10","slug":"flu-and-covid-19-vaccines-available-to-some-ontarians-starting-today-here-is-who-is-eligible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/flu-and-covid-19-vaccines-available-to-some-ontarians-starting-today-here-is-who-is-eligible\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu and COVID-19 vaccines available to some Ontarians starting today. Here is who is eligible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is launching its fall immunization program ahead of flu season and some people can get their shots starting this week.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, the Ministry of Health said an initial supply of COVID-19 and flu vaccines will be available for high-risk and priority groups who live, work or study in Ontario starting Monday. Those individuals include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hospitalized patients<\/li>\n<li>Hospital staff<\/li>\n<li>Residents and staff in long-term care homes, retirement homes and other congregate settings<\/li>\n<li>Individuals aged 65 and older<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Free flu and COVID-19 shots will be available more widely to the general public starting Oct.&nbsp;26 at participating pharmacies, public health units, and participating doctor and nurse practitioner offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is launching its fall immunization program ahead of flu season and some people can get their shots starting this week.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, the Ministry of Health said an initial supply of COVID-19 and flu vaccines will be available for high-risk and priority groups who live, work or study in Ontario starting Monday. Those individuals include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hospitalized patients<\/li>\n<li>Hospital staff<\/li>\n<li>Residents and staff in long-term care homes, retirement homes and other congregate settings<\/li>\n<li>Individuals aged 65 and older<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/flu-and-covid-19-vaccines-available-to-some-ontarians-starting-today-here-is-who-is-eligible\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flu and COVID-19 vaccines available to some Ontarians starting today. Here is who is eligible<\/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":[96,18,77,119,80,49,14,653,15],"class_list":["post-9962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-ontario","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccine-clinics","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962","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=9962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}