Vaccination rates in Waterloo region continue to rise, with latest available data showing 85.25 per cent for first doses, and about 78 per cent for second doses. But with the delta variant still circulating, Vickie Murray, of Waterloo region's COVID-19 vaccine task force, said unvaccinated people still need to get inoculated. "Currently we're doing approximately 1,400 doses per day with about 450 of them as first doses," Murray said during a media briefing on Friday. Vickie Murray of Waterloo region's COVID-19 vaccine task force. (CBC)'We need to keep going'Meanwhile, Waterloo region's medical officer of health Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang is also pleased with the uptake of vaccines.

Source: CBC News August 29, 2021 09:56 UTC