Ontario Flu Update

Healthy people in Ontario who want the H-1-N-1 vaccinewill have to go to the back of the line for a while still.

The priority for vaccinations is still the high risk group andhealth officials say they should be getting their needles faster nowthat twice as many clinics are going to be opened and with longerhours.

Dr. Arlene King, the province's chief medical officer, says there will now be 100 clinics across the province doling out the vaccinations and the medicine will be also be shipped to some doctors offices.

King says the flu is already above the highest rate seen in the past few years.

There have been 31 reported deaths from H-1-N-1 so far in Ontario, including three in the past week.

The high priority group includes pregnant women, children over six months but under five, health-care workers, people under 65 with health conditions and those in isolated communities.

King believes everyone in the province who wants the vaccine will have it -- by Christmas.