Marin County will allow people 65 and older to receive the coronavirus vaccine beginning next week, Laine Hendricks, a county spokesperson, confirmed to KQED.
Hendricks said in an email that residents will be able to begin booking appointments “later this week.” The Marin Independent Journal, which first reported the news, says vaccination appointments can be made through the county's website on Thursdays at 12 p.m.
Currently, those who are over 74, as well as health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities, are eligible to get vaccinated.
Marin has also released promising data relating to the safety of in-person teaching at schools in the county that have reopened their classrooms.
Marin County Public Health and the Marin County Office of Education say that as of Feb. 5, only 10 cases of suspected in-school coronavirus transmission have been reported.
“Of those, five were student-to-student, three were adult-to-adult, and two were adult-to-student,” the county wrote in a news release. "There have been no student-to-adult transmissions in school."