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Canadas vaccine rollout reached four more provinces on Wednesday, with health-care workers being inoculated against COVID-19 as officials warned hospitals in some areas are nearing a breaking point. Nurses were first in line for the Pfizer-BioNTech shot in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, while Prince Edward Island administered the vaccine first to workers at a long-term care home and Manitoba bestowed the honour on an ICU doctor. "Its an early Christmas present," said Ellen Foley-Vi...

  HALIFAX -- Doctors, nurses and other front-line health-care workers on Wednesday were the first people in Atlantic Canada to be given the COVID-19 vaccine. Ellen Foley-Vick, a public health nurse in St. Johns, N.L., received the provinces first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Memorial University, in a room full of socially distanced onlookers whose masks could not hide their smiles. Newfoundland and Labradors chief medical officer of health, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, administered the...

Winnipeg Free Press By: Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press Posted: Last Modified: 6:32 PM CST Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 Canadas vaccine rollout reached four more provinces on Wednesday, with health-care workers being inoculated against COVID-19 as officials warned hospitals in some areas are nearing a breaking point. Francesca Paceri, a registered pharmacist technician carefully fills t...