“Countries with no access to vaccines to date will finally be able to start vaccinating their health workers and populations at risk,” one official said.
OTTAWA NEWS AND UPDATES Ottawa Public Health on Monday reported 59 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, as the total number of cases climbed past the 14,000 mark, to 14,007. One new death was also confirmed, bringing the city’s COVID fatality toll to 433. As of Sunday afternoon, there were 438 active cases in Ottawa, including 17 in hospital, three of those in intensive care. Overall, 13,136 cases have been resolved. No new outbreaks were reported.
India's Serum Institute will ship COVID-19 vaccines to Canada within a month, its chief executive said on Monday, in a sign a diplomatic row triggered by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's comments on political protests in India was easing.
TORONTO (AP) The World Health Organization has granted an emergency authorization to AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine, a move that should allow the U.N. agency's partners to ship millions of doses to countries as part of a U.N.-backed program to tame the pandemic. In a statement Monday, the WHO said it was clearing the AstraZeneca vaccines made by the Serum Institute of India and South Korea’s AstraZeneca-SKBio. The WHO’s green light for the.