28.01.2021

Soite begins coro­na vac­ci­na­tions of elder­ly per­sons above the age of 80 who live at home and of their infor­mal care­givers — appoint­ment book­ing opens Mon­day Feb­ru­ary 1st 2021

Cen­tral Ostro­both­nia Joint Munic­i­pal Author­i­ty for Social and Health Ser­vices Soite will begin mass vac­ci­na­tions of the pop­u­la­tion against the coro­n­avirus at the begin­ning of Feb­ru­ary, start­ing from week 5. The vac­ci­na­tion timetable pro­ceeds accord­ing to Finland’s coro­na strat­e­gy. Mass coro­n­avirus vac­ci­na­tions of the pop­u­la­tion will be orga­nized as soon as pos­si­ble when the avail­abil­i­ty of vac­cines allows for this. Appoint­ment book­ing for coro­n­avirus vac­ci­na­tion for the first tar­get group, elder­ly per­sons above the age of 80 who live at home and their infor­mal care­givers who live in the same house­hold, will open on Feb­ru­ary the 1st 2021 and the vac­ci­na­tions begin on the 4th of Feb­ru­ary 2021.

Mass vac­ci­na­tions will begin with elder­ly per­sons over the age of 80 who live at home as well as infor­mal care­givers and oth­er elder­ly per­sons who live in the same house­hold. Appoint­ment book­ing for this tar­get group will be opened on Mon­day Feb­ru­ary the 1st at 10 am. You can book an appoint­ment for coro­na vac­ci­na­tion either elec­tron­i­cal­ly or by phone. If an infor­mal care­giv­er or husband/wife who lives in the same house­hold is to be vac­ci­nat­ed at the same time, the appoint­ment has to be booked by phone for both persons.

• Book an appointment by phone: 06 828 7488. Open February 1st 2021 starting Mon-Fri 8 am to 4 pm (except for Mon February 1st 2021, when the phone line opens at 10 am). You can also book an appointment on the behalf of an elderly person by phone.

• electronic appointment booking in the Omahoito service on the address: https://soite.terveytesi.fi
  You have to log in to the Omahoito service with your own bank codes (or other secure identification) before you can book an appointment for yourself. You can book an appointment for another person if you have made an agreement regarding this. Read more: https://www.soite.fi/toisen_puolesta_asiointi (in Finnish)

Ini­tial­ly, the avail­abil­i­ty of vac­ci­na­tion appoint­ments will be lim­it­ed due to the lim­it­ed amount of coro­na vac­cines avail­able to us. The num­ber of avail­able vac­ci­na­tion appoint­ments will increase when more coro­na vac­cines are dis­trib­uted to Soite’s area.

If you have to can­cel an appoint­ment due to force majeure, you can do so through the chan­nels men­tioned above.

The appoint­ment book­ing is only for the 1st vac­cine dose; appoint­ment for the boost­er vac­cine (3 weeks after the 1st vac­cine dose) will be booked at the vac­ci­na­tion site dur­ing the 1st vac­ci­na­tion appointment.

Please make sure that your elder­ly rel­a­tives get a vac­ci­na­tion appoint­ment and get to the vac­ci­na­tion site.

The vac­ci­na­tion appoint­ment can be booked to any coro­na vac­ci­na­tion site you want. Due to the lim­it­ed sup­ply of vac­cines, the coro­n­avirus vac­ci­na­tions will ini­tial­ly begin only at the fol­low­ing vac­ci­na­tion sites:

• Kokkola (place: Halpa-Halli’s old building, Kaarlelankatu 7
• Kannus (place: seurakuntatalo (the parish house), Valtakatu 13
• Tunkkari (place: the health center, Mäntöläntie 2 and Pajala family center, Pajalantie 1)
• Kruunupyy health station (address: Säbråntie 1)

Cur­rent­ly, you can only book an appoint­ment to these vac­ci­na­tion sites. More mass vac­ci­na­tion sites will be opened accord­ing to plan when the sup­ply of vac­cines improves.

After elder­ly peo­ple who are over the age of 80 and live at home and infor­mal care­givers and elder­ly who live in the same house­hold have been vac­ci­nat­ed, the coro­na vac­ci­na­tions will con­tin­ue with per­sons aged 70 to 79. After this, we will begin vac­ci­na­tions of per­sons who are younger than 70 and who belong to a risk group. Clients with­in Soite’s home care ser­vice will be vac­ci­nat­ed dur­ing vis­its by the home care services.

You can fol­low the progress of the coro­n­avirus vac­ci­na­tions in Soite’s area on: https://korona.soite.fi/en/the-coronavirus-vaccines/.

The coro­na vac­ci­na­tion is vol­un­tary and free of charge for every­one. Coro­n­avirus vac­cines offer effec­tive pro­tec­tion against the coro­n­avirus dis­ease and par­tic­u­lar­ly its severe forms. Accord­ing to cur­rent knowl­edge, coro­n­avirus vac­cines are effec­tive also against muta­tions of the coronavirus.