OTTAWA Retired General Rick Hillier says the idea that a majority of COVID-19 vaccines in Ontario are sitting in freezers is incorrect and that the province has the opposite problem. The information is misleading. We re actually going to run out of vaccines, Hillier told CTV Morning Live in Ottawa on Wednesday. Yesterday, we vaccinated more than 10,000 people in the province of Ontario. We will do the same and more again today. We are at the point now where we will start running out of vaccines as the people who need the second shot start coming back, he said. The retired Canadian Armed Forces General is leading Ontario s vaccine distribution task force. He suggested on Tuesday that holding back 35,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine contributed to the slow roll out, and acknowledged that pausing vaccinations during Christmas was a mistake.
More COVID-19 vaccines and feeling grateful in a pandemic: In The News for Dec. 30
Retired General Rick Hillier, Chair of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force, responds to a question, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford listens, during a press conference at Queen s Park in Toronto on Friday, December 11, 2020. Retired Gen. Rick Hillier, who is leading the province s COVID-19 vaccination program, says the drug will be distributed to long-term care and retirement homes. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin December 30, 2020 - 1:21 AM
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Region s vaccine task force prepares for arrival of the Moderna vaccine, ramps up clinics
Region to use full number of received Pfizer doses, more doses coming by next week
Dec 29, 2020 3:15 PM By: Luke Schulz
The Grand River Hospital s first vaccination clinicGrand River Hospital
An exciting boost on the COVID-19 vaccine front came from the province today, as Retired General Rick Hillier announced the province is expecting to receive doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine tomorrow.
According to Hillier, roughly 50,000 doses are set to be delivered to four sites in the province, to be redistributed to long-term care and retirement homes.
The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is on its way to Canada as early as Monday but regions such as Greater Sudbury remain in limbo as to when exactly it will be available to their most vulnerable citizens, and which ones will be first to get it.