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Alberta to begin charging residents a fee to get the COVID-19 vaccine | Globalnews.ca

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COVID-19 vaccine program will be rolled out in four phases, beginning with the highest-risk groups and gradually expanding to include more Albertans over time.

In January , the UCP government released a controversial report that called on the province to halt the use of the vaccine.

The province said work is underway to determine what the final cost will be per vaccine, but it noted the U.S. Center for Disease Control estimates a cost of $ 110 per vaccine.

For the 2025-26 season , the Alberta government said about 485,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been ordered.

Alberta still covers the cost of almost all other routine immunizations such as measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus, chickenpox, pertussis (whooping cough), HPV and meningitis.