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Fulton begins offering bilingual English-Spanish COVID-19 vaccination service

Fulton County has begun offering select English-Spanish COVID-19 vaccination services. (Courtesy of FGTV)
Fulton County has begun offering select English-Spanish COVID-19 vaccination services. (Courtesy of FGTV)
By Ben Brasch
March 26, 2021

Fulton County has begun offering COVID-19 vaccination services at select times for those who speak Spanish and English.

The bilingual offering is made possible through a mobile unit from CORE, a contractor the county has worked with for months testing and now vaccinating people.

Commissioner Bob Ellis said these sites will target members of the Latin and Hispanic communities.

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Chairman Robb Pitts said the county worked with the Mexican consulate to offer the service.

Check here for the latest Fulton vaccine information: https://www.fultoncountyga.gov/covid-19/covid-vaccine.

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Ben Brasch is the reporter tasked with keeping Fulton County government accountable. The Florida native moved to Atlanta for a job with The AJC. If there's something important to you going on in Fulton, he wants to know about it. Help him better metro Atlanta by dropping a line, anonymously or otherwise.

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