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City of Detroit residents 16 years or older now eligible to recieve COVID-19 vaccine

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Any Detroiter 16-years or older can get the coronavirus vaccine.

The new eligibility comes as the city introduces a new mass vaccination site at the Northwest Activities Center, which will offer the one-shot Johnson & Johnson inoculation.

Mayor Mike Duggan says Detroit, like the rest of the state, is seeing an increase in new COVID-19 infections.

“What we’re seeing today is hospitalizations of people in their 20s, their 30s, their 40s, their 50s.”

Detroit is offering vaccine clinics at various community churches on Saturdays. The city’s department of health is also immunizing non-residents who go in to work in Detroit.