The so-called "delta strategy" comes amid growing calls from some public health experts for Ontario to allocate an increased percentage of available vaccine doses to areas where the variant is spreading. Earlier in the vaccine rollout, the province sent more doses to 114 hot spots that were designated based on historical data. The health units eligible for accelerated second doses could therefore change over time, depending on the spread of this variant, officials added. 1:08Earlier this week, a member of Ontario's COVID-19 vaccine task force told CBC News he believes the interval should be shortened to get more people fully vaccinated. Labs completed more than 31,000 tests and Public Health Ontario logged a provincewide positivity rate of 2 per cent for a second consecutive day.

Source: CBC News June 10, 2021 14:17 UTC