MONTREAL The first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada.
Some of the country s initial 30,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines touched down on Sunday night, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Twitter, sharing a photo of a plane being unloaded. This is good news, he said. But our fight against COVID-19 is not over. Now more than ever, let’s keep up our vigilance.
The plane touched down at Mirabel International Airport in Montreal, the local airport authority said, adding that it wouldn t share any further details.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are bound for 14 distribution sites across the country, across all 10 provinces, and more doses are expected to cross the border on Monday.
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