HALIFAX Doctors, nurses and other front-line health-care workers on Wednesday were the first people in Atlantic Canada to be given the COVID-19 vaccine. Ellen Foley-Vick, a public health nurse in St. John s, N.L., received the province s first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Memorial University, in a room full of socially distanced onlookers whose masks could not hide their smiles. Newfoundland and Labrador s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, administered the symbolic first vaccine and laughed as she put a bandage on Foley-Vick s arm. Premier Andrew Furey was also on hand to witness the first vaccinations, calling the event a generational moment.
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