The Ottawa area's weekly COVID-19 vaccination checkup: July 1

Highlights:

• All adults in Ontario can now accelerate their second dose appointment.
• Quebec is offeringmore flexibility for where people get a second dose.
• There's updatednational guidance on what fully vaccinated people can do.
• More changes of note in Ottawa, the Cornwall areaand Renfrew County.

Every Thursday, CBC Ottawa brings youthisroundup of COVID-19 vaccinationdevelopments throughoutthe region. You can find more information through links at the bottom of the page.

There have been more than 2.25milliondoses administered in the wider Ottawa-Gatineau region, which has about 2.3 million residents.

That adds up toabout 260,000doses in the past week, more than any other since these checkups started in March.

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All adults in Ontarioare now eligible toaccelerate their second dose appointment. As you'll see below, many more second doses are now being administered than first doses.

More than 75per cent of Ontario residentshave received their first dose, and about 35per cent are fully vaccinated.

In Quebec, 71 per cent of all residents have had at least one dose.

People in that provincecan now book a second COVID-19 vaccine doseat a different location than where they gottheir firstthrough theClic Sant website.

Quebecers who received Moderna as their firstvaccine dose must stick with that brand for their second.

There are new federal guidelines for fully vaccinated Canadians.

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Ottawa

Ottawa Public Health has a new interactive map of vaccination sites.

More than a milliondoses have now been given to Ottawa residents. That includes more than 300,000second doses about 100,000 of them in the last week.

A one-day record21,282 doses were given out last Friday, part of arecord-breaking weekthat saw 127,623doses administered.

Nearly seventy per cent of the city'spopulation of about 1,050,000 has had at least one dose, including nearly 80per cent of eligible residents 12 and older.

Nearly 30 per cent of its total population is fully vaccinated. One-thirdof residents age 12 and over have had both shots.

By age group:

• More than one-third of residents in their 50s are fully vaccinated.
• More than half of residents in their 60s are fully vaccinated.
• Age groups under 40 have not quite reached 75 per cent coverage with at least one shot.
• Nearly 75 per cent of residents over 80 are fully vaccinated.

Medical Officer of Health Dr. Vera Etches said officials are constantly working to understand barriers people may have to getting a vaccine and working to get around them.

Western Quebec

The late-June Pfizer delay means the local health authority CISSSO is still only offering Moderna at walk-in clinics.

The Outaouais has distributed more than375,000 dosescombined first and second among a population of about 386,000. That doesn't count residents who may have been vaccinated in Ontario.

Renfrew County

Renfrew County's health unit cancelledsecond dose appointments after July 18, saying it had enough supply for everyone to rebook an earlier shot.

With a population of about 109,000, Renfrew County has distributed more than 94,000 doses.

More than 70 per centof its eligible population has at least a first dose and about 27per cent are fully vaccinated.

About 50 per cent of residents age 18 to 34 have had at least a first dose. At least three-quarters of every age group starting with people age 55 to 59 have had at least one shot.

Eastern Ontario Health Unit

Residents age 12 to 17 can get a first dose at an EOHU clinic without an appointment. If at least eight weeks havepassed, they can get theirsecond dose.

Medical Officer of Health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis said as of Monday, just over half that age group had had a first dose. He said hisgoal is to get 80 per cent fully vaccinated by the start of the next school year.

More than 180,000 vaccine doses have been administered among a population of about 209,000.

The EOHU ismoving some appointments from Cornwall Square to the Benson Centre later this month.

Leeds, Grenville and Lanark

More than 128,000 of the region's 173,000 residents have received at least onedose, and more than 43,000 are fully vaccinated. It gave about five times as many second doses in the last week as first doses.

Every age group starting with residents in their 30s has passed 75 per cent with one dose and every age group starting in the 50sis more than25 per cent fully vaccinated.

Overall, it said Tuesday 85 per cent of adult residentshad at least one dose and 30 per cent of adults had both.

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Hastings Prince Edward

More than 161,000doses have been administered to this area's residents, including more than 48,000 second doses.

Seventy-six per cent of the eligiblelocal population of about 168,000 has now had a first dose. Thirty-two per cent are fully vaccinated.

The health unit has given more than fivetimes as many second doses as first doses in the last seven days.

Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington

The region, with a population of about 213,000,has given more than 210,000 vaccine doses combined first and second to residents, including more than 65,000second doses.

About 90 per cent of its doses in the last week were second doses.

The health unit has now given a first dose to more than75 per cent of its eligible population 12 and older, and about 35per cent of eligible people have been fully vaccinated.