All adult District residents can pre-register for a vaccine appointment — even if they’re not currently eligible for a shot in the city’s phased rollout — according to D.C. Health officials.

During a call with D.C. councilmembers on Wednesday, D.C. Health officials said that any adult resident should sign-up through the city’s pre-registration system — an about-face from D.C. Health’s original ask that only eligible residents register, so as to not overwhelm the portal.

Pre-registering won’t guarantee an appointment any time soon, though. Eligibility for all residents ages 16 and older will begin May 1, per an announcement from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser earlier this week, in accordance with President Joe Biden’s national vaccine goals.

Launched one week ago, the pre-registration site came as welcome relief after weeks of technical glitches in the city’s first-come, first-served sign-up portal.

As of Sunday, March 14, 114,815 residents had pre-registered on the new site, with nearly 20,000 appointments booked through the new system last week. (Despite D.C. Health asking only eligible residents to sign-up, more than 33,000 non-eligible residents had registered on the portal on the first day it launched — seemingly without any technological snafus.)

Right now, residents 65 and older, residents ages 16-64 with chronic medical conditions, and certain essential workers are eligible for vaccine appointments.

Starting this week, the city is expanding its essential worker eligibility to include court and legal services staff, frontline mass transit workers, U.S. Portal Services employees, and food service. Others include local government, public utility, health, human and social service, and commercial and residential property maintenance workers that are required to work in-person. All teachers and child care workers are also eligible this week, regardless of whether they work remotely.