Vaccine expected to reach EOHU region in April
December 19, 2020
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By Phillip Blancher, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
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CORNWALL – Eleven months after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Canada, the first shipments of the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived December 14th.
The first doses in Ontario are being distributed to front-line health care workers in Toronto and Ottawa, with more doses expected in the coming weeks. But don’t expect any wide-scale roll out of vaccinations in the Eastern Ontario Health Unit region before April.
“My understanding is there are going to be a lot of doses,” said Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, Medical Officer of Health for the Eastern Ontario Health Unit.