Overview

• Eligible groups begin booking Oct. 1, with other residents to follow roughly three weeks later and pay a $100 administration fee.
• Free doses will be available to health-care workers, some seniors and people with qualifying medical conditions.
• Premier Danielle Smith said the decision to include health-care workers followed requests from the Health Sciences Association of Alberta and other unions.
• Alberta ordered 485,000 doses for the fall, about 250,000 fewer than were administered last year, citing lower uptake and spoiled doses.
• British Columbia says Albertans who do not qualify for a free shot at home can travel there for one, as critics warn a clinic-only rollout without pharmacies will constrain access.