How to book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment

You can also contact your employer, care home, or community group to find out if they have their own vaccination plans (if applicable).

You can book if you:

• work in a licensed childcare setting anywhere in the province (including all licensees, employees and students on educational placements)
• work in an elementary or secondary school anywhere in the province (including educators, custodial, school bus drivers, administrative staff)
• directly support students with complex special education needs in elementary and secondary schools anywhere in the province

You can also contact a COVID-19 vaccination clinic supported by First Nations, Inuit, and Métis health organizations.

If you book online: The system will automatically schedule your second dose 16 weeks after your first. The vaccine clinic can change this to the shortened dose interval at your first appointment.

Your non-Indigenous partners or household members can also get a vaccine.

You can book if you are a:

• responder to critical events (including police, fire, special constables, children’s aid society workers, emergency management, critical infrastructure restoration workers)
• enforcement, inspection, and compliance worker (including by-law enforcement, building inspectors, food inspectors, animal welfare inspectors, border inspection officers, labour inspectors, WSIB field workers)
• foster care agenda worker (including customary care providers)
• food manufacturing and distribution worker
• agriculture and farm worker
• funeral, crematorium and cemetery worker

If your job is not listed here: select “Group 2” from the list of priority groups to check if yours is included there.

You can book if you are a:

• essential and critical retail worker (including grocery, foodbank, pharmacy, ServiceOntario, ServiceCanada, Passport Canada, wholesalers and general goods, restaurant, LCBO workers)
• worker in manufacturing industries directly involved in supporting the COVID-19 response, construction (including infrastructure) and other essential businesses and services where facilities are at heightened risk for COVID-19 outbreaks and spread
• social worker and social services staff who provides in-person client services (including youth justice workers, Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program case workers)
• courts and justice system worker (including probation and parole workers)
• transportation, warehousing and distribution worker (including public transit workers, truck drivers supporting essential services, marine and rail cargo and maintenance, highway maintenance)
• electricity worker (including system operations, generation, transmission, distribution and storage workers)
• communications infrastructure worker (including cellular, satellite, landline, internet, public safety radio)
• water and wastewater management worker
• financial services worker (bank branch staff)
• veterinarian and veterinary teams
• waste management worker
• oil and petroleum worker (including petroleum refineries, crude oil and petroleum storage, transmission and distribution, retail sale of fuel)
• natural gas and propane gas worker (including compression, storage, transmission and distribution of natural gas and propane)
• mine worker (including those needed to ensure the continued operation of active mines)
• uranium processing worker (those working in the refining and conversion of uranium and fabrication of fuel for nuclear power plants)

If your job is not listed here: select “Group 1” from the list of priority groups to check if yours is included there.

You can book if you:

• have a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or more
• are going through treatment that causes your immune system to weaken, also known as immunosuppression (for example, chemotherapy, taking immunity-weakening medication)
• have an intellectual or developmental disability (for example, Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy)
• are an essential caregiver for someone with any of these conditions who needs regular and sustained help with personal care and/or activities of daily living

If your health condition is not listed here: select “at-risk health conditions” from the list of priority groups to check if yours is included there.

You do not need a doctor’s note, letter, or other document as proof while booking.

If you are being treated for cancer

You may receive your second vaccine dose 21 to 28 days after you get the first dose for additional protection against COVID-19. Your second dose will automatically be scheduled 16 weeks after your first. The clinic can change this at your first appointment. You must bring a letter from your health care provider to your first appointment saying that you are eligible for a shortened second dose internal.

You can book if you:

• are pregnant
• had an organ transplant at any time in the past
• had a stem cell transplant (bone marrow transplant) at any time in the past
• have a neurological disease that makes it difficult to breathe (for example, motor neuron disease, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis)
• were diagnosed with a cancer that affects your blood, bone marrow or lymph nodes (a haematological malignancy) within the last year
• have severe kidney disease (eGFR under 30)
• are an essential caregiver for someone with any of these conditions

You may need to answer some questions about your eligibility.

If you had a transplant or are being treated for cancer

You may receive your second vaccine dose 21 to 28 days after you get the first dose for additional protection against COVID-19.

You must bring a letter from your health care provider to your first appointment saying that you are eligible for a shortened second dose internal.

If you book online: your second dose will be automatically scheduled 16 weeks after your first. The clinic can change this at your first appointment.

You can book if you have:

• immune deficiencies and autoimmune disorders (for example, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, HIV/AIDS)
• stroke and cerebrovascular disease (for example, aneurysms)
• dementia (for example, Alzheimer’s Disease)
• diabetes
• liver disease
• cancer
• respiratory disease (for example, asthma, bronchitis, COPD, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia, pleurisy)
• spleen problems (for example, asplenia)
• heart disease
• hypertension with end organ damage
• a diagnosed mental disorder (for example, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety disorder)
• substance use disorders
• sickle cell disease
• thalassemia
• immunocompromising health conditions
• disabilities requiring direct support care in the community

You do not need a doctor’s note, letter, or other document as proof while booking.

If your health condition is not listed here: select “high-risk health conditions” from the list of priority groups to check if yours is included there.

If you are being treated for cancer

You may receive your second vaccine dose 21 to 28 days after you get the first dose for additional protection against COVID-19. Your second dose will automatically be scheduled 16 weeks after your first. The clinic can change this at your first appointment. You must bring a letter from your health care provider to your first appointment saying that you are eligible for a shortened second dose internal.