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By Sunday night, the majority of Toronto adults will be protected against COVID-19.
The City of Toronto said it expects to have 60% of adults fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the weekend.
“Torontonians are stepping up in record numbers,” said Councillor Joe Cressy, the chair of the Toronto Board of Health. “We’ve made incredible progress over the past few months.”
The milestone was reached as the City shifts its vaccination efforts to areas with low immunization rates, such as Mount Dennis and Englemount-Lawrence.
Launched yesterday, the City’s weeklong “Home Stretch Vaccine Push” consists of 20 micro-focused clinics set up in six priority neighbourhoods in Toronto’s northwest corner.
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The province did not release data during Thursday’s Canada Day holiday.
Waterloo, with 41 new cases reported Friday, Toronto, with 23, and Peel, with 21, remain the province’s worst-hit regions.
There were five new confirmed cases in Ottawa, according to Public Health Ontario, bringing the city’s total to 27,662 since the pandemic’s start. Due to different data-collection times, those figures may not match those issued later in the day by Ottawa Public Health.
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