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Sir John students get their jabs in

Pop-up vaccine clinics for young people started in Yellowknife schools on May 19.
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Grade 9 student Ciara Mackeinzo, left, receives her Pfizer-BioNTech jab on May 19 from nurse Jenna Blanchard. I feel a bit safer now, said Mackeinzo. Blair McBride/窪蹋勛圖厙 photo

Pop-up vaccine clinics for young people started in Yellowknife schools on May 19.

At Sir John Franklin high school, students filed into the gymnasium to wait their turn to be vaccinated.

According to lead nurse, Janie Neudorf, 258 first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were allocated for youths aged 12-17

A total of 1,100 doses went into arms at schools in the territorial capital on May 19; leftover doses were offered to members of the public in the evening.

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Grade 9 student Aubrey Sluggett, left, receives her first COVID-19 dose from nurse Lianne Mantla-Look, at Sir John Franklin high school on May 19. Im excited to be vaccinated, Sluggett said. Blair McBride/窪蹋勛圖厙 photo




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