Peel District School Board offers its buildings as vaccination clinics in COVID-19 hot zones

Yorkregion.com
April 29, 2021
Brenna Xavier

The Peel District School Board is offering its buildings for use as vaccination clinics in Peel Region’s COVID-19 hot zones.

In a letter Wednesday to Peel’s medical officer of health, director of education Colleen Russell-Rawlins and supervisor Bruce Rodrigues said they wants to partner with Peel Public Health to “aid in stemming the spread of COVID-19 and its variants.”

“We know you can’t do this alone,” they wrote in the letter to Dr. Lawrence Loh. “We also realize that everyone needs to do their part, including public institutions, in order to ensure the safety of our communities during this pandemic.”

The letter said with majority of students learning remotely, pop-up clinics at schools would help with more space to administer vaccines, once more supply is available in the region.

“We want to step up and be part of the solution for our education workers, our students, their families and communities who urgently need help to push back this pandemic,” Russell-Rawlins and Rodrigues wrote.