WILMINGTON — All veterans enrolled in Veterans Affairs health care, regardless of age, are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine through the Wilmington VA Medical Center, officials announced Wednesday.

Veterans must to be enrolled in VA health care and preferably receive care at the Wilmington VAMC or one of its five Community Based Outpatient Clinics in Delaware or southern New Jersey (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland counties) to be eligible to receive the vaccine through Wilmington VAMC.

Wilmington VAMC will make every effort to vaccinate veterans in the Traveling Veterans Program and veterans who reside in the region but get care through another VA medical center.

“By expanding the eligibility criteria, we will be able to vaccinate all of our veterans more quickly and get closer to having staff return to their team assignments so we can offer more routine care to veterans at a pre-pandemic level,” Vince Kane, director of the Wilmington VAMC, said in a statement.

As of this week, Wilmington VAMC had administered more than 22,000 vaccine doses to veterans and medical center staff.

Veterans can get the latest information on Wilmington VAMC’s COVID-19 vaccination program online.