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Good evening to you.
We begin with vaccines, which cometh nearly a million of them this week alone. Now that the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot has the green light here in Canada, the first doses are set to arrive tomorrow. Procurement Minister Anita Anand said today that 500,000 of them are en route. The week will also see 444,600 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot here.