Orange County COVID-19 appointments fill within 45 minutes

Orange County to reopen COVID-19 vaccine portal on Monday

The portal will reopen at 9 a.m. and spots are expected to go quickly.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - Orange County opened up more COVID-19 vaccine appointments for seniors on Monday but they quickly went.

Orange County said they reopened their vaccination booking website at 9 a.m. Monday. By 9:45 a.m., the spots were fully booked.

You must be 65 or older and a Florida resident to sign up. You can pre-register HERE for when the portal reopens in the future. It will make booking an appointment time quicker.

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The county reportedly hopes to vaccine 2,500 people a day. Mayor Jerry Demings said that they have already vaccinated about 40 percent of the seniors in the county.

"The more people we get vaccinated, the faster that we move through the vaccination process, the faster we're going to recover and the faster we're going to get through this pandemic," Dr. Pino of Orange County said.

Orange County is also said to be doing its part to make sure seniors without transportation have a ride to a vaccination site. They are offering free rides for qualified seniors in Orange, Seminole, and Osceola Counties. You must have a vaccination appointment.

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More than 2.3 million people in Florida have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. About 1.1 million of those have received both doses.

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