PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island’s third coronavirus mass vaccination site opened Wednesday at the site of a former Benny’s store in Middletown.
Appointments through the state’s website showed the new location was already fully booked.
The Middletown site joins state-run mass vaccination clinics that have already opened in Providence and Cranston. The state also plans to open a site at a former Sears store in Woonsocket, but the exact timeline has not been determined.
COVID-19 shots are also available for eligible residents at 30 community locations across the state and at numerous retail pharmacy locations.
Currently, residents age 65 and older are eligible to sign up for a shot, but Gov. Daniel McKee on Tuesday announced a plan to get teachers, school support staffers and day care workers their first shots by the end of the month.
The state is also set to expand eligibility to residents age 60 to 64 and to people 18 and older with certain underlying health conditions.
More than 236,000 vaccine first doses have been administered in the state, and more than 94,000 people have been fully vaccinated, the state Department of Health said Tuesday.
