The DeWitt/Piatt Bi-County Health Department is working on bringing a mass vaccination clinic to its service area.

According to Executive Director Dave Remmert, the clinics will be for eligible '1b' residents. '1b' is the essential workforce that is in daily contact with the public.

There are limited space and limited ability to vaccinate in large numbers. According to Remmert, these vaccines will be distributed with the help of area providers.

The Health Department will be vaccinating Clinton School District teachers beginning next Friday, January 29. The small audience of their staff will test the capacity and the health department site. Remmert notes their mass vaccination clinic will be a much larger scale operation.

Additionally, Clinton Schools are hoping to be a site for the vaccinations two to three times per week.