Whitehorse, the capital city of Yukon, has become the first capital city in Canada to offer the COVID-19 vaccine to citizens aged eighteen or over. A clinic operating in the Yukon Convention Centre will accept anyone from the general public in Whitehorse and several surrounding communities as long as an appointment has been booked.

Currently, Yukon has the largest percentage of citizens vaccinated in all the provinces and territories of Canada (18.56%), followed by Nunavut at 13.09%, and the Northwest Territories at 10.11%, as of March 5th. These percentages account for the people who have been fully vaccinated by receiving both doses of the vaccine.

Since January, Yukon has worked hard to vaccinate all frontline healthcare workers, long-term care residents, remote Indigenous communities and other vulnerable populations. As of February 10, they have been able to open clinics to all adult residents to close in on the mission of achieving herd immunity. Chief medical officer Dr. Brendan Henley stated for a public health update that “[they] are well on [their] way to immunizing a majority of [their] population.”