the palais des congrès was prepared to administer up to 2,000 doses of astrazeneca per day in its walk-in clinic, which serves the south central health region. but after a strong start last week, the clinic has only administered about 4,000 doses total over the past six days, said ciusss du centre-sud spokesperson jean nicolas aubé.
same story at the network that serves the northern section of the island.
“initially, there was a rush to get the astrazeneca vaccine, and on day 1, we vaccinated 500 people,” said emilie jacob, a spokesperson for the ciusss du nord-de-l’île-de-montréal. “however, in the last few days, we’ve only vaccinated about 100 people a day with that vaccine.”
at the olympic stadium’s walk-in operation, 4,300 of the 6,000 available doses of astrazeneca had been administered by wednesday morning, said ciusss de l’est-de-l’île-de-montréal spokesperson christian merciari.
while demand was very high thursday and friday, with about 1,000 people being vaccinated each day, it dwindled to between 400 and 600 on the weekend and stayed there, he said.
the network began offering astrazeneca by appointment on tuesday at its three vaccination sites, the olympic stadium, the martin brodeur arena and the roussin centre.