December 16, 2020 - 4:43 PM
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (All times Eastern):
7:35 p.m.
Alberta s top doctor says an Edmonton arena is being set up as an alternate hospital with help from the Canadian Red Cross.
Chief medical health officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw says Alberta Health Services and the national charity are putting 100 patient beds in the Butterdome arena at the University of Alberta.
She says it will take a few weeks to set up the site, but there is no plan to staff it unless the beds are needed.
Another alternate site was previously set up at Calgary s Peter Lougheed Centre.
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.
Posted: Dec 16, 2020 9:45 PM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
Doses of COVID-19 vaccine are shown at a clinic in Toronto on Dec. 15, 2020. Health care workers from care homes hardest-hit by COVID-19 are among the first in Canada to get the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Posted: Dec 16, 2020 10:42 AM AT | Last Updated: December 16, 2020
Watch Nova Scotia s first COVID-19 vaccine be administered
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0:30Halifax nurse Danielle Sheaves became the first Nova Scotian to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 16, 2020. 0:30
A Halifax nurse is the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Nova Scotia. It s a little overwhelming this morning, but feels good, and I was honoured to be asked to be the first person to get the vaccine this morning, Danielle Sheaves, a registered nurse in the designated COVID unit at the Halifax Infirmary, said Wednesday.
She said she will definitely feel safer going into work now.
Coronavirus: What s happening in Canada and around the world on Dec. 16
Multiple provinces administered their first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, but a top health official warned that the country s vaccination campaign doesn t spell the immediate end of the pandemic.
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Posted: Dec 16, 2020 3:33 PM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
Newfoundland and Labrador Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald administers the COVID-19 vaccine to nurse Ellen Foley-Vick in St. John s on Wednesday. Foley-Vick is the first person in N.L. to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.(Sarah Smellie/The Canadian Press)