Doug Ford released the following statement.
“Today is a historic day for Ontario and for Canada as the first Health Canada-approved COVID-19 vaccines have started to be given to our frontline health care heroes.
I would especially like to recognize Anita Quidangen, the first person in Ontario and Canada to receive the shot. Anita is a personal support worker (PSW) from the Rekai Centre at Sherbourne Place, a long-term care home in Toronto. She has worked tirelessly to care for some of our most vulnerable, both throughout this pandemic and since her first days as a PSW in 1988. Anita has spent years rolling up her sleeves to protect our province, and today, she didn’t hesitate to find a new way to do so. She represents the best of the Ontario Spirit.”
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Anita Quidangen is the first person in Ontario to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Toronto-based personal support worker at long-term care home Rekai Centre at Sherbourne Place was injected this morning with the Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine shortly before noon.
She was one of five long-term care workers to receive the two-shot vaccine in Toronto today.
According to University Health Network (UHN), the vaccinations took place at the Michener Institute for Education, which has been set up as the pilot site for long-term care home workers to receive doses in Toronto.
The vaccine arrived earlier than expected, allowing Ontario to begin immunizing long-term care workers as part of the pilot stage of a three-phase vaccine rollout plan on Monday instead of Tuesday as initially planned.