Covid-19 vaccine bookings start Monday in Interior Health

Mar 6, 2021 | 3:40 PM Pete McIntyre

Interior Health (IH) will open up its call centre on Monday (Mar. 8) for seniors to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments.

On Monday, seniors aged 90 and over, and Indigenous peoples aged 65 and over, can begin booking appointments by calling 1-877-740-7747. The call centre is open seven days per week, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

IH reminds everyone to be vigilant against fraud. Call centres will never ask for financial information, credit card details, or social insurance numbers.

The call centre will only ask for:

legal name
date of birth
postal code
personal health number (PHN) from the back of B.C. driver’s licences or BC services cards, and
current contact information, including an email address you or your family checks regularly or a phone number that can receive text messages.

The public is reminded to follow a staggered approach to prevent long waits and system overload.

March 8, 2021: Seniors born in or before 1931 (90 years+) and Indigenous people born in or before 1956 (65 years+) may call to book their vaccine appointment;
March 15, 2021: Seniors born in or before 1936 (85 years+) may call to book their vaccine appointment; and
March 22, 2021: Seniors born in or before 1941 (80 years+) may call to book their vaccine appointment.

Interior Health will have 49 vaccine clinics including at the Vernon Rec Centre, the Enderby Seniors Centre, Salmon Arm Rec Centre, Trinity Hall in Kelowna and the Westbank Community Centre in West Kelowna. See all the clinic locations here: https://news.interiorhealth.ca/news/covid-19-vaccines/

To learn about B.C.’s COVID-19 Immunization Plan and the Phase 2 rollout, visit: www.gov.bc.ca/bcseniorsfirst

For additional information on the immunization campaign, visit www.gov.bc.ca/covidvaccine

For more information on what to expect when you go to get vaccinated for COVID-19, visit: www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19/covid-19-vaccine/getting-a-vaccine