While the Long Beach Island Health Department’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic at St. Francis Church Hall ended earlier this month, the department is now offering the vaccine in its Ship Bottom office – and is strongly encouraging immunization, “as the virus variants are here and will continue to spread more easily among those with no immunity,” said health officer Daniel Krupinski.

“The Delta variant B 1.617.2 is becoming a dominate variant circulating in New Jersey,” Krupinski continued.