2382 A healthcare worker administers a Pfizer/BioNTEch COVID-19 vaccine to a patient at The Michener Institute, in Toronto, Canada, on December 14, 2020. REUTERS
Toronto/Montreal, December 14
Canada kicked off its inoculation campaign against COVID-19 on Monday by injecting frontline healthcare workers and elderly nursing home residents, becoming just the third nation in the world to administer the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
The first dose broadcast on live TV went to Anita Quidangen.
The personal support worker at the Rekai Centre, a non-profit nursing home for the elderly in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, said she was “excited” to have been first in line.
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