Vaccination clinics for COVID-19
Appointments for a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine are available throughout the Sudbury and Manitoulin districts.
Learn which groups are currently eligible and how to book an appointment. If your group or age range is not yet eligible, your turn is coming soon. This page will be updated frequently as new information becomes available.
Public Health Sudbury & Districts is not a designated COVID-19 Hot Spot in the province of Ontario.
Visit our COVID-19 page for information on symptoms, self-isolation, and where to get tested for COVID-19. We also report vaccination data for our area.
COVID-19 vaccine clinic dates and locations
We are following Ontario Government’s three-phased vaccination plan (Government of Ontario). We have been working with partners across our service area to set up COVID-19 vaccine clinics that are accessible and inviting.
Dates and locations [expand]
A reminder you must not attend a clinic if you have any symptoms of COVID-19 or if you are in isolation due to a COVID-19 exposure.
Chapleau
May 19, 25, and 26 at the Chapleau Recreation Centre
Greater Sudbury
May 13 and 14 at the Carmichael Arena
May 11, 13, 18, and 25 at the Gerry McCrory Countryside Sports Complex
May 15 and 29 at the Centennial Community Centre and Arena (Hanmer)
May 19 at the Dr. Edgar Leclair Community Centre and Arena (Azilda)
Lacloche Foothills
May 12, 19, and 26 at the Espanola Recreation Centre
Manitoulin Island
May 11 and 25 at the NEMI Recreation Centre (Little Current)
May 18 at the Mindemoya Missionary Church
Sudbury East
May 13, 19, and 27 at the Alban Community Centre
May 20 and 26 at the St. Charles Community Centre
All vaccination clinics are by appointment only and COVID-safe measures are in place.
Who can book an appointment?
Currently, only those listed in the how to book an appointment section below are eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. As additional groups become eligible to receive the vaccine, we will add booking information as details are confirmed.
Future eligibility, who’s next?
Plans are underway to be able to offer vaccine to more groups. Throughout the month of May the following groups are anticipated to become eligible, dependant on vaccine supply:
Thursday, May 13, at 8 a.m.
- Adults 40 and older in 2021 (born in 1981 or earlier)
Week of May 17
- Adults 30 and older in 2021 (born in 1991 or earlier)
Week of May 24
- Adults 18 and older in 2021 (born in 2003 or earlier)
Check this page for future booking instructions.
How to book an appointment
All vaccination clinics are by appointment only. Appointments can be booked by phone and the option to book online is available for certain groups.
High call volumes
Please only call if clinics have been announced for your group locally, as we are trying to make sure phone lines are available for the people who are able to book an appointment. We appreciate your patience.
Select your group below for booking instructions.
Adults 40 years of age and older in 2021 [pharmacy vaccine locations]
Select pharmacies across the province are booking appointments for AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for eligible people aged 40 or older in 2021. You must have an appointment to get vaccinated at a participating pharmacy.
Visit https://covid-19.ontario.ca/vaccine-locations for locations.
Adults aged 40 or older in 2021 are not yet eligible for mass immunization clinics in Sudbury and districts.
Adults 50 years of age and older in 2021
Individuals can book an appointment online or by phone. Online booking is a simple and efficient process and helps reduce call volumes. Individuals can also help people who are eligible by booking an appointment on their behalf.
Book online
Visit https://covid-19.ontario.ca/book-vaccine/
Book by phone
- Main line: call 705.674.2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week.
To help with call volumes, an additional call centre has been set up.
- Alternate line: call 1.844.782.2273, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week.
Health care workers
Pre-registration is now closed. Health care workers can call and book their COVID-19 vaccination appointment.
Book by phone
- Main line: call 705.674.2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week.
To help with call volumes, an additional call centre has been set up.
- Alternate line: call 1.844.782.2273, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week.
Ministry of Health, health care worker criteria (Government of Ontario, PDF)
Indigenous adults (18+) (First Nations, Métis, Inuit)
COVID-19 vaccine clinics for Indigenous adults 18 years of age and older at the time of immunization have been occurring in First Nations and in municipal settings. All clinics are with the leadership of and/or in close partnership with community partners (e.g. First Nations leadership, health services serving Indigenous people, Aboriginal Health Access Centres, and others).
Individuals can book an appointment online or by phone. Online booking is a simple and efficient process and helps reduce call volumes. Individuals can also help people who are eligible by booking an appointment on their behalf.
Book online
Visit https://covid-19.ontario.ca/book-vaccine/
Book by phone
- Main line: call 705.674.2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week.
To help with call volumes, an additional call centre has been set up.
- Alternate line: call 1.844.782.2273, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week.
Individuals who cannot work from home
Individuals can book an appointment online or by phone. Online booking is a simple and efficient process and helps reduce call volumes. Individuals can also help people who are eligible by booking an appointment on their behalf.
Book online
Visit https://covid-19.ontario.ca/book-vaccine/
Book by phone
- Main line: call 705.674.2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week.
To help with call volumes, an additional call centre has been set up.
- Alternate line: call 1.844.782.2273, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week.
Individuals who cannot work from home who fall under Group One (Government of Ontario) include:
- Elementary and secondary school workers (including educators, custodial, school bus drivers, administrative staff)
- Workers responding to critical events (including police, fire, special constables, children’s aid society workers, emergency management, critical infrastructure restoration workers)
- Enforcement, inspection, and compliance roles (including by-law enforcement, building inspectors, food inspectors, animal welfare inspectors, border inspection officers, labour inspectors, WSIB field workers)
- Individuals working in licensed childcare settings (including all licensees, employees and students on educational placements who interact directly with children in licensed childcare centres and in authorized recreation and skill building programs, licensed home child care and in-home service providers, employees of home child care agencies)
- Foster care agenda workers (including customary care providers)
- Food manufacturing and distribution workers
- Agriculture and farm workers
- Funeral, crematorium, and cemetery workers
Individuals who cannot work from home who fall under Group 2 (Government of Ontario) include:
- Essential and critical retail workers (including grocery, foodbank, pharmacy, ServiceOntario, ServiceCanada, Passport Canada, wholesalers and general goods, restaurant, LCBO workers)
- Workers 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 workers and social services staff who provide in-person client services (including youth justice workers, Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program case workers)
- Courts and justice system workers (including probation and parole workers)
- Transportation, warehousing and distribution workers (including public transit workers, taxi drivers, truck drivers supporting essential services, marine and rail cargo and maintenance, highway maintenance)
- Electricity (including system operations, generation, transmission, distribution and storage workers)
- Communications infrastructure workers (including cellular, satellite, landline, internet, public safety radio)
- Water and wastewater management workers
- Financial services workers (bank branch staff)
- Veterinarians and veterinary teams
- Waste management workers
- Oil and petroleum workers (including petroleum refineries, crude oil and petroleum storage, transmission and distribution, retail sale of fuel)
- Natural gas and propane gas workers (including compression, storage, transmission and distribution of natural gas and propane)
- Mine workers (including those needed to ensure the continued operation of active mines)
- Uranium processing workers (those working in the refining and conversion of uranium and fabrication of fuel for nuclear power plants)
Individuals with highest-risk health conditions and one essential caregiver
Individuals can book an appointment online or by phone. Online booking is a simple and efficient process and helps reduce call volumes. Individuals can also help people who are eligible by booking an appointment on their behalf.
Book online
Visit https://covid-19.ontario.ca/book-vaccine/
Book by phone
- Main line: call 705.674.2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week.
To help with call volumes, an additional call centre has been set up.
- Alternate line: call 1.844.782.2273, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week.
Highest-risk health conditions include:
- Organ transplant recipients and individuals awaiting organ transplant
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
- Neurological diseases in which respiratory function may be compromised (e.g., motor neuron disease, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis)
- Haematological malignancy diagnosed <1 year
- Kidney disease eGFR <30
- Individuals who are pregnant at time of vaccination
Definition of essential caregiver
Up to one primary essential caregiver supporting those with highest-risk health conditions are eligible for vaccination if they meet the following criteria:
- The health condition of the individual being supported requires ongoing reliance on the care and/or assistance from the essential caregiver, AND
- The essential caregiver provides direct, frequent, and sustained in-person personal care and/or assistance with activities of daily living to the individual with the health condition.
Individuals with high-risk health conditions
Individuals can book an appointment online or by phone. Online booking is a simple and efficient process and helps reduce call volumes. Individuals can also help people who are eligible by booking an appointment on their behalf.
Book online
Visit https://covid-19.ontario.ca/book-vaccine/
Book by phone
- Main line: call 705.674.2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week.
To help with call volumes, an additional call centre has been set up.
- Alternate line: call 1.844.782.2273, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week.
High-risk health conditions include:
- Obesity (BMI > 40)
- Other treatments causing immunosuppression (for example, chemotherapy, medications that weaken the immune system)
- Intellectual or developmental disabilities (for example, Down Syndrome)
Definition of essential caregiver
Up to one primary essential caregiver supporting those with certain high risk health conditions are eligible for vaccination if they meet the following criteria:
- The health condition of the individual being supported requires ongoing reliance on the care and/or assistance from the essential caregiver, AND
- The essential caregiver provides direct, frequent, and sustained in-person personal care and/or assistance with activities of daily living to the individual with the health condition.
Individuals with at-risk health conditions
Individuals can book an appointment online or by phone. Online booking is a simple and efficient process and helps reduce call volumes. Individuals can also help people who are eligible by booking an appointment on their behalf.
Book online
Visit https://covid-19.ontario.ca/book-vaccine/
Book by phone
- Main line: call 705.674.2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week.
To help with call volumes, an additional call centre has been set up.
- Alternate line: call 1.844.782.2273, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week.
At-risk health conditions include:
- Immune deficiencies and autoimmune disorders
- Stroke and cerebrovascular disease
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Liver disease
- All other cancers
- Respiratory diseases, such as asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy
- Spleen problems, such as asplenia
- Heart disease
- Hypertension with end organ damage
- Diagnosed mental disorder
- Substance use disorders
- Sickle cell disease
- Thalassemia
- Immunocompromising health conditions
- Other disabilities requiring direct support care in the community
Adult recipients of chronic home care
Individuals can book an appointment by phone.
Book by phone
- Main line: call 705.674.2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week.
To help with call volumes, an additional call centre has been set up.
- Alternate line: call 1.844.782.2273, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week.
Faith leaders who provide certain functions such as end-of-life care
Individuals can book an appointment by phone.
Book by phone
- Main line: call 705.674.2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week.
To help with call volumes, an additional call centre has been set up.
- Alternate line: call 1.844.782.2273, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week.
Public Health Sudbury & Districts is offering vaccine to faith leaders who provide:
- end of life care
- care of the deceased, funerals, bathing, or other ceremony with direct contact with deceased persons
- home visits to unwell persons
- pastoral care in hospitals/long-term care homes/retirement homes or other vulnerable settings
Residents, essential caregivers, and staff of high-risk congregate living settings
Public Health Sudbury & Districts is currently working directly with service providers to offer the vaccine to residents, essential caregivers, and staff of high-risk congregate living settings. Clinics are being offered for these individuals in both mass immunization clinic settings and mobile immunization teams.
Staff, residents, and essential caregivers of retirement homes and congregate care settings for seniors, Elder care homes, long-term care homes
COMPLETED
All staff, residents, and essential caregivers of retirement homes and congregate care settings for seniors, Elder care homes, and long-term care homes have been offered the vaccine. If you have not received the vaccine and would like to receive the vaccine, please book your appointment.
Book by phone
- Main line: call 705.674.2299 (toll-free: 1.800.708.2505), between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., seven days a week.
To help with call volumes, an additional call centre has been set up.
- Alternate line: call 1.844.782.2273, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week.
This item was last modified on May 11, 2021
