Posted: Dec 23, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says travellers from abroad should be tested for COVID-19 at Canadian airports.(Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)
Premier Doug Ford is slamming the federal government for not doing enough to protect Ontario from international travellers, who he suggests are a problematic source of COVID-19 spread in the province.
However, based on the provincial government s own statistics, travel-related COVID-19 cases represent a small number of infections. It s like a tiny, tiny fraction of all the cases that we re seeing in Ontario, said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease physician and member of the Ford government s vaccine distribution task force. So, no, it s not zero, but it certainly is not driving the epidemic in Ontario.. Was in the past, but it isn t right now.
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Canada begins COVID-19 vaccinations
Updated : 2020-12-15 11:55
A healthcare worker administers a Pfizer/BioNTEch coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to personal support worker Anita Quidangen at the Michener Institute, in Toronto, Canada, Dec. 14, 2020. Reuters
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 in Ontario.
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Dec 15, 2020
TORONTO (AP) 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 in Ontario.
“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.”
Canada administers first doses of COVID-19 vaccine
By ROB GILLIESDecember 15, 2020 GMT
TORONTO (AP) 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 in Ontario.
“It’s an honor, thank you very much,” she said. “I’ll continue to do my job as a PSW.”