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Farmers are welcoming Ontario Premier Doug Fords decision that meat processing company employees will rank as second priority to receive COVID-19 vaccinations.

The Ontario government provided an update on the province's broader vaccination timeline for 2021 at a press conference Wednesday afternoon. Chair of ...

Ontario is reporting 29-hundred and 61 new COVID-19 infections today (Jan 13) and 74 more deaths in advance of a stay-at-home order taking effect at 12:01 a.m. that coincides with a second State of Emergency implemented yesterday (Jan 12). Residents must stay home as of tomorrow, except for trips to the grocery store, getting exercise and going to medical appointments. Today, the province announced the expansion of COVID-19 Immunization Program: to Seniors, Frontline Essential Workers in next p...

Ontario is working to immunize all residents and staff of long-term care homes in the province against COVID-19 coronavirus by Feb. 15, said Premier Doug Ford…

Last Updated Wednesday, January 13, 2021 1:44PM EST The head of Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccination task force says hospitals gave some doses to non-frontline staff, even people who work from home, because it was better to do that than to let the doses expire, and it may continue to happen. Ret. Gen. Rick Hiller said Wednesday that in some cases, when long-term care home workers couldn’t make it to hospital vaccination sites in late December and early January, and the Pfizer v...

January 7, 2021   ·   0 Comments Written By ALYSSA PARKHILL Though the Province remains in lockdown, the numbers of COVID-19 cases continue to rise. Ontario reported 3,128 new cases on January 5, with 2,015 resolved and 52 resulting in death. The province has a new total of 197,360 cases with 166,790 resolved and 4,730 deaths. As the holiday break comes to an end, the numbers refuse to slowdown, especially in the hot spot areas.  Pee...

Ontario Update on COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution – January 5, 2021 Speaking briefly with journalists ahead of a meeting Ontario’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force, General Rick Hillier, the task force chair, and Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, provide an update on the distribution of vaccines in the province. General Hillier announces that the province is aiming to vaccinate all residents and health-care workers in long-term care homes in Toronto, Peel, York, and Windsor-Essex...

Last Updated Thursday, December 31, 2020 1:01PM EST Health officials have begun to administer the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to long-term care residents in Ontario on Thursday. The vaccine was delivered around 9:30 a.m. to Chester Village, a long-term care home in Toronto’s Danforth neighbourhood that has yet to experience a serious outbreak of COVID-19 since the pandemic was declared. “It’s very emotional,” CEO Cynthia Marinelli told CTV News Toront...

  TORONTO -- Health officials have begun to administer the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to long-term care residents in Ontario on Thursday. The vaccine was delivered around 9:30 a.m. to Chester Village, a long-term care home in Toronto’s Danforth neighbourhood that has yet to experience a serious outbreak of COVID-19 since the pandemic was declared. “It’s very emotional,” CEO Cynthia Marinelli told CTV News Toronto Thursday morning as the first batches of the Moderna...

More COVID-19 vaccines and feeling grateful in a pandemic: In The News for Dec. 30 Retired General Rick Hillier, Chair of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force, responds to a question, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford listens, during a press conference at Queens Park in Toronto on Friday, December 11, 2020. Retired Gen. Rick Hillier, who is leading the provinces COVID-19 vaccination program, says the drug will be distributed to long-term care and retirement homes.  THE C...