TORONTO The Ontario government has released a list of 17 additional hospital sites that will receive doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine over the next two weeks. The first 6,000 doses of the vaccine received by the province were sent to Toronto’s University Health Network and The Ottawa Hospital earlier this week. So far more than 2,300 health-care workers have received their first dose of the vaccine at those two sites with more expected to be vaccinated in the coming weeks. The province, however, has planned a wider rollout for when it receives its next shipment of the vaccine. It says that a total of 17 additional hospital sites have been chosen to “to continue vaccinating health care workers and essential caregivers who work in hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes and other congregate settings caring for seniors.”
Windsor Regional Hospital will be one of seventeen hospitals in Ontario to begin receiving doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the next two weeks, the province announced Friday.
Hospital officials say Windsor Regional will receive a “limited supply” of the vaccines but the exact number or the exact date for delivery is not yet known.
They say first group the Ontario government is focusing on vaccinating are employees who work at long term care and retirement Homes that are not in outbreak in Grey (lockdown) and red (control) regions in the province, including Windsor and-Essex.
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In her COVID-19 press conference this afternoon, Mayor Bonnie Crombie confirmed that Mississauga and Peel Region will get the new COVID-19 vaccine on Monday (December 21).
Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine was authorized with conditions by Health Canada on December 9 and began distribution in Ontario earlier this week.
Similarly to the rest of the province, the first doses in Mississauga will go to front-line healthcare workers at the city’s hospitals, and will later go to vulnerable residents and seniors living in long-term care homes and congregate settings during a later phase of the vaccine rollout.
The mayor hopes that by April, we will begin to see wider community access to the vaccine.
Posted: Dec 12, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 12, 2020
Paula McMahon prepares a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as the mass public vaccination program gets underway in Glasgow on Tuesday. Experts say transparency will be key in winning over those who feel hesitant about the new vaccines.(Jeff J Mitchell/The Associated Press)