MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s fourth community-based coronavirus vaccination clinic is opening in Wausau, Gov. Tony Evers announced Thursday.
The clinic at Northcentral Technical College, which opens April 6, will join previously opened community clinics in Janesville, La Crosse and Racine.
“These vaccination clinics continue to serve Wisconsin by giving folks more options to get vaccinated,” Evers said in a statement. “And in doing so, bring us all one step closer to getting back to our Wisconsin way of life.”
The Wausau clinic will administer at least 400 doses of vaccine per day, with the ability to go to 1,000 doses daily, Evers’ administration said. The first appointments will go to those on the Marathon County Health Department’s waiting list for priority patients.
As of Saturday, the Janesville clinic had administered 5,703 vaccine doses, and the one in La Crosse had administered 2,021 doses, the governor’s office said. The Racine clinic just opened on Tuesday.
As of Thursday, more than 27% of people in Wisconsin had received at least one vaccine dose and nearly 16% were fully vaccinated, according to the state Department of Health Services.
While vaccination numbers steadily crept up, so too were reports of COVID-19 variants. There are now 69 detected cases of the B117 variant first identified in England, up from 55 last week.
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