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Health PEI is encouraging eligible Islanders, including children, to take advantage of available vaccination appointments at clinics across the province and get their first, second or booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and better protect themselves against the virus. The...

Health PEI is encouraging eligible Islanders, including children, to take advantage of hundreds of available vaccination appointment times and get their first, second or booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine over the coming days. The following is a list of upcoming clinics and...

Thousands of new COVID-19 vaccine appointments are being released this week and mass clinics are being scheduled for early next week as Health PEI expands access for both third dose boosters and vaccines for children 5 to 11 years of age. Mass vaccine clinics will reopen in...

Health PEI will hold a pop-up booster vaccination clinic from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Sherwood Business Centre in Charlottetown on Tuesday, Dec. 28. Approximately 75-100 doses of Moderna booster vaccine will be given through this clinic. Appointments may be made through the...

Due to community transmission of COVID-19, Health PEI is placing additional restrictions on visiting hospital facilities across PEI. At this time only three (3) Partners in Care are permitted to support each patient. There will be no general visitors allowed. Partners in Care...

Health PEI advises that COVID-19 testing clinics in Souris and Charlottetown are experiencing very high volumes and higher than usual wait times. People can expect to wait up to two to three hours to be swabbed. Please be patient as staff work to test as many people as quickly as...

Health PEI advises that the schedule for the COVID-19 drop-in testing sites and cough and fever clinics will change for the remainder of November including holiday hours for November 11 th. Drop-in testing sites 64 Park Street, Charlottetown Monday - Friday: 8am - 4pm Saturday -...

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is responding to a school bus accident and has called a Code Orange meaning a response to a large number of patients. The accident involved Bus 49. The children who were on the bus are being transferred to hospital as a precaution and are all doing...

The Code Orange at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital has been cleared. Children are no longer being transferred to hospital as they have been cleared by Island EMS. A total of three children have been treated, but they are stable. “Thank you to QEH staff and physicians, partner...