By Tim Mastro

DOVER — Appointments are available for COVID-19 vaccinations Thursday and Friday at Delaware Tech campuses in Dover and Georgetown at sites hosted by Curative Inc.

The sites are only offering the Pfizer vaccine, which is approved for those 16 years old and older. To register for the Dover site visit here and select a time slot. Visit here for the Georgetown site.

The Delaware Division of Public Health also updated its walk-in hours for vaccines at DPH clinics. Those clinics also have the Pfizer vaccine and second dose appointments may be scheduled on site. Individuals can also walk in for second dose appointments.

The five clinics, Porter Public Health Clinic in Wilmington, Williams Public Health Clinic in Dover, Riverwalk Public Health Clinic in Milford, Adams Public Health Clinic in Georgetown and Shipley Public Health Clinic in Seaford, now have walk-in hours of 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday for the Pfizer vaccine.

“It has become easier than ever to become vaccinated,” said DPH director Dr. Karyl Rattay at a COVID-19 virtual town hall Wednesday night.

A full list of weekly vaccination sites and registration links is available  here.

Delaware has administered 725,190 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, using information via DelVAX, the state’s immunization information system, as of Tuesday at 11:59 p.m.

The DPH is reporting 312,484 individuals who are now fully vaccinated, 281,013 of those are Delawareans. Non-residents can be vaccinated in Delaware as long as they either work in Delaware or receive their health care in Delaware.

An additional 133,261 persons have been partially vaccinated in Delaware and are awaiting their second dose of a two-dose vaccine series.

The state received 12,000 more doses of vaccine on Tuesday. Overall, Delaware has received 894,935 doses which includes 673,380 shipped directly to the state and 221,555 alloted to the state via the Federal Pharmacy Program.

Delaware’s COVID-19 statistics continued a slow, but steady decline from a recent surge in early April. The DPH reported 214 new positive cases of the virus in Wednesday’s update, dropping the seven-day rolling average to 266.1 new cases per day — the lowest mark in the last 30 days.

The number of individuals in Delaware hospitals with COVID-19 dropped for the third day in a row, down to 149 — the first time hospitalizations have been under 150 since April 18. The state is still well off its yearly low for hospitalizations, 83 which was set on March 11.

Of those currently hospitalized, 19 cases are considered critical, according to the DPH.

The DPH announced five newly reported COVID-19 related deaths in Wednesday’s update, bringing the total to 1,622. Three of the five were residents of Kent County while one each was from New Castle County and Sussex County.

Three were also residents of long-term care facilities. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in long-term care centers increased to 746, 46% of all COVID-19-related deaths.

The three individuals ranged in age from 55 years old to 89 years old.