{"id":344969,"date":"2021-05-27T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=344969"},"modified":"2021-05-27T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T20:00:46","slug":"vaccine-availability-is-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/vaccine-availability-is-expanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine availability is expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. and the Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force have expanded vaccine accessibility by making the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine available at all vaccination sites, which includes new outreach sites at various churches on Sundays. <\/p>\n<p>Those who are 12 years old and older are now able to be registered for COVID-19 vaccinations at all sites. Walk-ins are accepted at all vaccination sites. The MCATS operating hours are Monday \u2013 Friday, 8am \u2013 6pm; and Saturdays, 8am \u2013 noon. The Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center vaccination operating hours are Monday \u2013 Friday, 8am \u2013 6pm; and Saturdays, 8am \u2013 4pm <\/p>\n<p>The Chalan Kanoa Diocese has agreed to have some churches serve as vaccination sites on Sundays, from 8am to noon, at the following dates and locations: <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 May 30, Santa Soledad Parish, Kagman<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 June 6, San Vicente Ferrer Parish, San Vicente<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 June 13, Saint Jude Parish, Koblerville<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 June 20, San Antonio Parish, San Antonio<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 June 27, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cathedral, Chalan Kanoa <\/p>\n<p>Village vaccination sites will continue to run Saturdays, 8am \u2013 noon, at the following dates and locations: <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 May 29, Northern Marianas College Building J <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 June 5, San Roque Parish social hall <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 June 12, location to be determined <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 June 19, Kagman Community Center <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 June 26, Northern Marianas College, Building J <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 July 3, San Roque Parish social hall <\/p>\n<p>Currently, 54% of the eligible population in the CNMI have been fully vaccinated. For live updates on this number, visit www.vaccinatecnmi.com\/vax-dashboard. The COVID-19 vaccines are available to uninsured residents. Vaccine recipients do not have to pay for vaccination. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. and the Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force have expanded vaccine accessibility by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":330352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}