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A quarter of Albertans have now received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine as the number of active cases provincewide surpassed 20,000 on Sunday.
Another 37,308 doses of vaccine were administered in Alberta through the end-of-day Saturday. In total, the province has given 1,398,673 shots, which includes 271,490 second doses. This means 25.5 per cent of Albertans have received their first shot of COVID-19 vaccine, and 31.4 per cent of Albertans aged 16 and over.
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The seven-day average for daily shots administered is 35,946.
“One of the most important steps you can take is to be vaccinated when you’re eligible. All vaccines are safe, effective and save lives,” Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, said on her Twitter account Sunday.
Albertans born in 1981 or earlier those who are turning 40 or older are currently eligible for the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are available to those aged 65 and older, First Nations individuals aged 50 and over, people with high-risk underlying health conditions aged 16 and older, and eligible front-line workers. More shipments of these vaccines are expected in May, with hundreds of thousands of doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine scheduled to arrive in Alberta over the next few weeks.
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