Thunder Bay regional hospital to start receiving COVID-19 vaccine over the next two weeks
The province on Friday announced the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be distributed to the additional sites over the next two weeks, with the Thunder Bay hospital selected to test travel logistics in northern Ontario and to support the administration of the vaccine to Indigenous and remote communities.
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Posted: Dec 18, 2020 12:41 PM ET | Last Updated: December 18, 2020
The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre will receive its first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine within the next two weeks.(Jeff Walters/CBC)
The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre will be one of 17 Ontario hospitals about to receive COVID-19 vaccines.
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The newest cases were found in West Grey, Meaford and South Bruce.
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Ontario expands COVID-19 vaccine to 17 hospitals including hardest-hit areas
by Lucas Casaletto
Last Updated Dec 18, 2020 at 2:07 pm EDT
Ontario’s government has announced new vaccination sites where health care workers and essential caregivers who work in hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes, and other congregate settings will be inoculated.
Over the next two weeks, the Ford government says it will gradually increase its COVID-19 vaccine rollout across 17 additional hospitals, including regions – like Toronto, Peel, and York – currently seeing the highest rates of COVID-19 infection.
Gen. Rick Hillier, the lead of Ontario’s COVID-19 taskforce, said the province is expecting to receive up to 90,000 Pfizer-BioNTech doses from the federal government before the end of the year.