Regina mayor pushes for city to get to 85% vaccination rate with lip-sync video
The cities of Regina and Saskatoon have had an ongoing vaccination lip sync challenge
In a video, RCMP officers, health workers, firefighters, Regina police, dancers from the Rider Cheer Team, Roughriders and Regina Mayor Sandra Masters dance along and lip-sync to the song It Takes Two to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations.
All summer the cities of Regina and Saskatoon have been holding a friendly COVID Vaccine Challenge. The mayor of the city with the lower amount of vaccinations in a month has to do a lip-sync video.
In June, Regina had more vaccinations. As a result, Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark lip-synced to The Last Saskatchewan Pirate on the South Saskatchewan River.
In July, Saskatoon gave out more shots. As a result, Masters lip-synced to It Takes Two by Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock.
In a statement, Masters said the lyrics, "it takes two to make a thing go right" is meant to convince all remaining residents to do their part and make sure they get fully vaccinated with two shots.
As of Monday, Aug. 16, the Saskatchewan Health Authority said Regina is 70.66 per cent fully vaccinated.
"I would still like to see 85 per cent double vaccination in Regina," Masters said in a release. "We want residents of our cities to be safe and healthy. If this video gets the message out to more people to get fully vaccinated, then we've done a good thing."
Regina residents can find out more about pop-up vaccine clinics at Regina's outdoor pools at Regina.ca/COVID19.