TORONTO Nearly a year after the first infection was found in the province, Ontario reached a significant milestone in the fight against COVID-19 on Dec. 14, 2020. On that date, the first dose of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus was administered in the province. Personal support worker Anita Qudangen’s shot was followed by applause as she sat in a chair inside a downtown Toronto hospital. Since then, amid substantial supply issues, more than 250,000 people in Ontario have been fully vaccinated against the disease. Now, as more doses become available and more needles go into arms across the province, many questions remain.
Peel is preparing for a sped up vaccination rollout with two mass vaccination clinics set to open up in the region once the vaccine supply is available.
Dr. Eileen de Villa says the numbers show "the power of vaccines" but she says it's not time yet to ease up on visiting restrictions in long-term care homes.
Province building capacity to vaccinate more than 40-thousand people per day, Toronto prepping clinics
by news staff, Lucas casaletto
Posted Feb 19, 2021 9:41 am EDT
Last Updated Feb 19, 2021 at 4:32 pm EDT
We got an update today from the head of Ontario’s vaccination rollout team.
Retired Gen. Rick Hillier elaborated on the next sector of the population in line for the COVID-19 vaccine.
“We don’t think we can get at it right in the first week or 10 days of March but by the middle of March, we want to be able to start vaccinating those 80 years of age and older and we will be reaching out to them in the next week to two weeks to tell them when their opportunity is going to be,” said Hillier.