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COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Now Open For Some Frontline Essential Workers In Phase 1c
Beginning today, individuals who live or work in the Fairfax Health District that fall into the following categories are now eligible.
04/05/2021
Beginning Monday, April 5, individuals who live or work in the Fairfax Health District that fall into the following categories are now eligible to register to get a COVID-19 vaccine:
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- Energy
- Water, Wastewater, Waste Removal
- Housing and Construction
- Food Service
- Transportation and Logistics
- Institutions of Higher Education Faculty/Staff
See below for specific category details. The Fairfax Health District includes Fairfax County, the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church, and the towns of Clifton, Herndon and Vienna.
These are the first six priority groups of frontline essential workers in Phase 1c as outlined by the Virginia Department of Health.
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Employees should be prepared to show some form of work-related identification or pay stub, because the vaccine appointment could be offered by one of our vaccine partners that may require ID.
As a reminder, Fairfax County is not participating in the statewide registration system at this time. Fairfax City residents should register on the Fairfax Health District website. If you previously registered on the statewide system, please register with Fairfax Health District to ensure you are invited to schedule an appointment.
Energy
The following groups who live or work in the Fairfax Health District are included in this category, based on CDC and VDH lists:
- Electric industry
- Environmental consulting services
- Fuel dealers
- Gasoline stations
- Mining
- Natural gas industry
- Oil and gas extraction
- Petroleum industry (including gas station workers)
- Pipeline transportation
- Renewable energy
- Support activities for mining
- Utilities
Water, Wastewater and Waste Removal
The following groups who live or work in the Fairfax Health District are included in these categories, based on CDC and VDH lists:
- Administration of air and water resource and solid waste management programs
- Plumbers
- Recycling removal workers
- Water and utility workers
Housing and Construction
The following groups who live or work in the Fairfax Health District are included in these categories, based on CDC and VDH lists:
- Administration of housing programs
- Architectural, engineering, and related services
- Community housing services
- Construction of buildings
- Electricians
- Hardware stores and similar retail stores
- House painters
- Housing construction
- Housing and real estate services
- Hotel and motel staff (traveler accommodations)
- HVAC technicians
- Interior design services
- Real estate
- Specialty trade contractors
Food Service
The following groups who live or work in the Fairfax Health District are included in this category, based on CDC and VDH lists:
- Community food service
- Restaurants and other eating places (servers and back of house)
- Special food services
Transportation and Logistics
The following groups who live or work in the Fairfax Health District are included in these categories, based on CDC and VDH lists:
- Air traffic controllers
- Airline ground crews
- Airline personnel
- Airline pilots
- Automotive driving schools
- Automotive equipment rental and leasing
- Automotive repair and maintenance
- Car retail and repair
- Charter bus industry
- Commercial air, rail and water transportation equipment rental and leasing
- Couriers and messengers
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses
- Flight crews
- Graphic design services
- Maritime
- Merchant wholesalers, durable and nondurable goods
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers
- Packaging and labeling services
- Printing and related support activities
- Private mail centers
- Process, physical distribution, and logistics consulting services
- Rail transportation
- Road construction industry
- Shipyard
- Support activities for transportation
- Taxi and limousine service
- Transit and ground passenger transportation
- Truck transportation
- TSA employees
- Warehouse and storage
- Water transportation
- Welcome Center
Institutions of Higher Education
This group includes both faculty and staff at institutions of higher education.
This press release was produced by the City of Fairfax. The views expressed here are the author’s own.
