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Everyone six months and older can line up for a flu shot starting Monday as the annual flu campaign begins across the province.
The shot is available at public health clinics, from doctors and nurses or at a pharmacy.
The public health clinics offering the free shot are listed on the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s website.
There’s a clinic at Evraz Place in Regina. In Saskatoon, more than a dozen locations are listed, including SaskTel Centre.
Both clinics are by appointment only.
In a press conference Monday, SHA Physician Executive Dr. Kevin Wasko said these types of clinics will provide a test-run of sorts for when a COVID-19 vaccine rolls out.
“This will be a test-drive of sorts, in terms of how we could deliver on a COVID vaccine. It would provide learnings,” he explained.
Pharmacies also are not allowing walk-ins this year.
According to the SHA, the province has received 596,000 doses of the influenza vaccine for 2020, which is 36.5 per cent more than a “normal year” in Saskatchewa
