Canada follows US lead, administers first COVID-19 vaccine shots to health workers
Five front-line workers in Ontario were among the first Canadians to receive the vaccine at one of Toronto s hospitals
Associated Press | December 15, 2020 | Updated 10:11 IST
Canada administered its first doses of a Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, becoming one of the first countries to do so in the effort to beat back the pandemic. Five front-line workers in Ontario were among the first Canadians to receive the vaccine at one of Toronto s hospitals.
Anita Quidangen, a personal support worker who worked throughout a Covid-19 outbreak at the Rekai Centre nursing home in Toronto, got the first dose. This is a victory day for science, said Dr Kevin Smith, president and CEO of Toronto s University Health Network. Here we are today breaking the back of this horrible virus.
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After the UK, the United States and Canada have become the two other nations in the world to start vaccination drives against Covid-19 with the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine dose. Both US and Canada have started administering the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine dose to healthcare workers and elderly citizens.
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The Pfizer vaccine is now being used in the US and Canada for mass vaccination. (Reuters)
Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Tuesday, December 15, 2020:
There have been 142,121 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 1,940 (or 1.4 per cent) from the previous day. There are 121,563 people recovered from the virus while 3,972 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 7,019,734 of which 32,045 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 468,862. The country has 13,553 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, 647 in British Columbia, 733 in Alberta, 91 in Saskatchewan, 499 in Manitoba, 3,972 in Ontario, 7,533 in Quebec, eight in New Brunswick, four in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.
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Hamilton expected to be one of first Ontario cities to get COVID-19 vaccine, officials say
Ontario s medical officer of health says Hamilton may not have to wait long before it gets the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The medical officers of health for Ontario and Hamilton both say the vaccine should be in Hamilton soon
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Gisele Levesque, one of 229 residents at the CHSLD St-Antoine long-term care home, is injected with the Pfizer/BioNTEch COVID-19 vaccine in Quebec City on Dec. 14.(Pat Lachance/Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services)