Clarion County Commissioner Wayne Brosius announced Tuesday that the Clarion County inoculation clinic at the former Peeble’s store will close June 23.
“There will be a morning shift and then it will be closing,” he said during the commissioners’ meeting on Tuesday.
The reduction in the reported cases of COVID-19 allows the county to close the inoculation facility, according to Brosius.
The schedule moving forward will be posted on the Clarion Hospital website and Facebook page, and walk-ins will be welcomed, the representative said.
The county has been renting the former Peebles site at the Clarion Mall, and staff members from the hospital have been operating the center with help from county employees.
The county paid $3,000 a month to rent the building, but was later reimbursed via COVID-19 grants.
The opening of the larger facility enabled the hospital to increase the number of inoculations per day from about 140 to more than 400 during the peak of the pandemic.
The state Department of Health recorded Clarion County with nine new COVID-19 cases since Friday. The county’s total number of cases reported since the beginning of the pandemic is 3,195, and the total number of deaths is 94.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of Monday, Pennsylvania has administered first doses of vaccine to 59.4% of its entire population, and the state ranks ninth among all 50 states for first doses administered by percentage of population.
In other business
The commissioners signed a memorandum of understanding between the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts and Clarion County for grant funding to support Adult Treatment Court and Behavioral Health Court with $5,265 and $9,325, respectively.
Behavioral Health Court, which was launched in April 2018, is based on a similar court in Butler County. The court is part of an effort to divert people with mental illnesses from the criminal justice system by improving mental health services and providing diversion at the earliest possible stage.