Today, exactly nine months and 17 days after Trillium Health Partners (THP) treated its first patient with COVID-19, the hospital administered the first COVID-19 vaccine in Mississauga.
According to a THP news release, the vaccine was given by Nasha Zaheer, a registered nurse who has been working in the first dedicated COVID-19 unit since March. This past year has been trying for all of us and no one has felt it more deeply than those of us on the frontlines, or families who have lost a loved one to this virus, said Zaheer in a statement. The arrival of this vaccine gives our community as a whole renewed hope and optimism for a healthier, happier new year.
COVID-19 vaccines coming to Oshawa
Posted on December 22, 2020 by oshawaexpress in COVID-19, HEALTH, NEWS
Lakeridge Health is on the list to receive some doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
Ontario is expecting to receive up to 90,000 Pfizer-BioNTech doses from the federal government before the end of the year to continue vaccinating health care workers and essential caregivers working in hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes and other congregate settings caring for seniors.
The province will be distributing additional doses of the vaccine to 17 more hospital sites, including regions with the highest rates of COVID-19 infection.
“Following a successful pilot, we are excited to continue onto the next stage of our rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines to Ontarians,” says Deputy Premier and Minister of Health Christine Elliott. “While we are planning to ensure that everyone who wants a vaccine will receive one, we need to first protect our frontline workers and those p
Ontario to implement provincewide lockdown on Christmas Eve, sources say
The Ontario government is poised to impose a provincewide lockdown starting Christmas Eve, sources confirm, as the province logs more than 2,000 new cases of COVID-19 for the sixth consecutive day.
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Ontario is poised to impose a provincewide lockdown starting Christmas Eve, sources confirmed Sunday. (Evan Mitsui/CBC News)
5 Ontario regions tightening restrictions, Peel and Toronto to remain in lockdown
Ontario is tightening public health restrictions in five regions as hospitals say they are inundated with COVID-19 patients.
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Ontario is tightening public health restrictions in five regions as hospitals say they are inundated with COVID-19 patients.
Those regions include Hamilton, which will move to the grey or lockdown level, joining Peel Region, Toronto and Windsor-Essex County, Premier Doug Ford s government said late Friday afternoon.
Ontario is reporting 2,357 new cases of COVID-19 and 27 new deaths on Saturday.
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Toronto had 665 new cases, Peel Region had 448, York Region had 174 and Windsor-Essex had 170
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Toronto continues under lockdown as the number of new cases of COVID-19 continues to top 2,000 daily.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)