Garland has temporarily closed its vaccine registration website after experiencing a high volume of no-shows at vaccination site appointments.
The city will be working to confirm appointments with over 20,000 registered people this week, according to a news release.
City spokesperson Dorothy White said it’s likely that residents and people outside the city are registering in multiple places and then forgetting to take their names off of Garland’s waitlist. The city is asking anyone on Garland’s vaccine list who gets vaccinated somewhere else to email GPH@GarlandTX.gov or call 972-205-3900 to remove their name from the city’s list.
The city still plans to hold a mass vaccination event this Wednesday, April 7, at Homer Johnson Stadium, located at 1209 E. Centerville Road.
As of April 4, the city has administered 18,419 first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while 130,276 remain on the waitlist.
Starting today, residents over 80 years old may receive vaccines without an appointment in Garland at the Public Health Clinic at 206 Carver Drive from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
CORRECTION: April 6, 2021 at 9:20 a.m.: An earlier version of this story had the city’s next mass vaccination event as this Thursday.
