COVID-19 vaccines coming to Oshawa
Posted on December 22, 2020 by oshawaexpress in COVID-19, HEALTH, NEWS
Lakeridge Health is on the list to receive some doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
Ontario is expecting to receive up to 90,000 Pfizer-BioNTech doses from the federal government before the end of the year to continue vaccinating health care workers and essential caregivers working in hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes and other congregate settings caring for seniors.
The province will be distributing additional doses of the vaccine to 17 more hospital sites, including regions with the highest rates of COVID-19 infection.
“Following a successful pilot, we are excited to continue onto the next stage of our rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines to Ontarians,” says Deputy Premier and Minister of Health Christine Elliott. “While we are planning to ensure that everyone who wants a vaccine will receive one, we need to first protect our frontline workers and those p
Ontario to implement provincewide lockdown on Christmas Eve, sources say
The Ontario government is poised to impose a provincewide lockdown starting Christmas Eve, sources confirm, as the province logs more than 2,000 new cases of COVID-19 for the sixth consecutive day.
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Ontario is poised to impose a provincewide lockdown starting Christmas Eve, sources confirmed Sunday. (Evan Mitsui/CBC News)
BARRIE, ONT. Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) in Barrie and Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket are among 17 Ontario hospitals the province says will receive the next batch of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of the year. The additional hospitals announced Friday join Toronto s University Health Network and the Ottawa Hospital in giving the vaccine to health care workers. A COVID-19 Immunization Clinic will open in Barrie in the Sperling Drive RVH COVID-19 Testing and Assessment Centre in anticipation of the vaccine. This is wonderful news for all of us and cause for real optimism, but it is a complex endeavour, said Dr. Charles Gardner, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit s medical officer of health. It will take some time for us, working together with our partners, to roll out mass immunization for all of our residents who want it.
5 Ontario regions tightening restrictions, Peel and Toronto to remain in lockdown
Ontario is tightening public health restrictions in five regions as hospitals say they are inundated with COVID-19 patients.
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Ontario tightens COVID-19 restrictions in 5 more regions
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Ontario is tightening public health restrictions in five regions as hospitals say they are inundated with COVID-19 patients.
Those regions include Hamilton, which will move to the grey or lockdown level, joining Peel Region, Toronto and Windsor-Essex County, Premier Doug Ford s government said late Friday afternoon.
Ontario is reporting 2,357 new cases of COVID-19 and 27 new deaths on Saturday.
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Toronto had 665 new cases, Peel Region had 448, York Region had 174 and Windsor-Essex had 170
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Posted: Dec 19, 2020 10:26 AM ET | Last Updated: December 19, 2020
Toronto continues under lockdown as the number of new cases of COVID-19 continues to top 2,000 daily.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)