Phase 1C Of Vaccinations Begins In Fairfax Health District

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA — The Fairfax County Health Department announced Monday COVID-19 vaccine registrations have opened to certain essential workers in phase 1c.

People who live or work in the Fairfax Health District (Fairfax County or cities of Falls Church or Fairfax) and fall into these essential worker groups can register: energy; water, wastewater, and waste removal workers; housing and construction; food service; transportation and logistics; and institutions of higher education faculty and staff.

Other groups that will be eligible later in phase 1c are workers in finance; information technology and communication; media; legal services; public safety (engineers); and other public health workers). The health department expects to open registration to remaining phase 1c groups later this week and start phase 2 (all residents 16 and up) by April 18.

Employees are asked to bring work-related identification or a paystub to the appointment, as some of the health department's vaccine partners may require ID.

Residents should continue to use the health department's vaccine registration form. Fairfax County is not participating in the statewide vaccine registration system.

The health department moves into phase 1c as other Northern Virginia health districts begin the phase and some parts of the state begin phase 2. As of 9 a.m. Monday, there are 31,084 people on the health department's waitlist, or 8 percent of the 380,472 who have registered to date.