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Last Updated Monday, December 14, 2020 11:51PM EST A Toronto personal support worker has become the first person in Ontario to receive an approved vaccination against the novel coronavirus. At about noon Monday, Anita Quidangen sat down for her jab in a gymnasium at University Health Network’s Michener Institute campus. As she received her shot, the room erupted in applause. Quidangen has worked at The Rekai Centres on Sherbourne Street since 1988. “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,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a statement
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As Ontario recorded Monday 23 deaths and 1,940 daily cases, its second-highest of the pandemic, provincial health officials administered the first vaccinations to frontline health care workers in downtown Toronto.
Premier Doug Ford called the first jab in the province to a personal support worker an historic moment in the province’s ongoing fight to eliminate the COVID-19 virus.
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Monday’s first vaccinations are part and parcel of an expected 249,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNtecch vaccine to be delivered and disseminated to Ontario frontline workers reportedly by the end of the month.
| Updated December 14, 2020
TORONTO Ontario’s first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine went to five “Rekai angels,” front-line workers from Toronto’s Rekai Centre nursing home.
“I’m excited because I’m the first one to get the vaccine,” personal support worker Anita Quidangen told a reporter on scene at University Health Network (UHN) in downtown Toronto.
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The room broke into applause after she received the shot.
“OK, who’s next?” asked Dr. Kevin Smith, UHN’s president and CEO.