This is a game-changer : Calgary and Edmonton health-care workers receive first COVID-19 vaccines in Alberta Stephanie Babych © Calgary Health services Twitter account RN Tanya Harvey is the first person in Calgary to receive a COVID vaccine.
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Skip Ad The first Alberta health-care workers received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the doses landed in Calgary. Respiratory therapist Sahra Kaahiye, who works at the University of Alberta Hospital, CapitalCare Norwood, and Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital in Edmonton, was the first person in Alberta to roll up her sleeve to get the COVID-19 vaccine. “I am grateful to be one of the first health-care workers in Alberta to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. I am from the Somali community and I want to set an example for my community,” Kaahiye said in a release from Alberta Health.
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It s safer than COVID : Canada s 1st vaccine recipients, health-care workers hope others follow suit
By now, many Canadians likely know that Lucky Aguila was among the first people in this country to be vaccinated against COVID-19 on Monday. But the news came as a bit of a surprise to the 27-year-old nurse’s parents. Aguila didn’t tell them he was getting the vaccine; instead, they saw it happen on TV.
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Tamara Dus, director of health services at the University Health Network, injects a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at The Michener Institute in Toronto on Monday.(Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)
Canada Jabs Its First Citizen For Covid-19 Published December 15th, 2020 - 08:26 GMT
A healthcare worker waves at journalists after a press conference organized at the Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Center in Montreal, Quebec on December 14, 2020. Maimonides was the first geriatric health center to receive a delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech s vaccines. The center was reported to have had many issues with the COVID-19 pandemic over the past month. Andrej Ivanov / AFP
The government of Canada has inoculated its first citizens against the coronavirus, officials said.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu announced during a press conference on Monday out front of the Maimonides Geriatric Center in Montreal, Quebec, that the rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has begun.
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A health-care worker watches as the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are delivered to the Maimonides CHSLD in Montreal, Canada, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 in Montreal.
Image Credit: (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP) December 14, 2020 - 2:30 PM TORONTO - A long-term care resident in Quebec and a nursing home worker in Ontario received Canada s first COVID-19 vaccinations on Monday, kicking off the largest immunization campaign in the country s history. The shots from Pfizer were administered in Quebec City and Toronto within half an hour of each other, creating some confusion about which province could lay claim to being the first in the country to hand out the doses.
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