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A health-care worker watches as the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are delivered to the Maimonides CHSLD in Montreal, Canada, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 in Montreal.
Image Credit: (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP) December 14, 2020 - 2:30 PM TORONTO - A long-term care resident in Quebec and a nursing home worker in Ontario received Canada s first COVID-19 vaccinations on Monday, kicking off the largest immunization campaign in the country s history. The shots from Pfizer were administered in Quebec City and Toronto within half an hour of each other, creating some confusion about which province could lay claim to being the first in the country to hand out the doses.
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OTTAWA Ottawa s first COVID-19 vaccines were given to frontline health care workers on Tuesday, the beginning of the largest inoculation in the city s history. Jo-Anne Miner, a personal support worker at St. Patricks Home on Riverside Drive, was administered the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine just after 8 a.m. Tuesday morning at the Ottawa Hospital Civic campus. I just hope it s the start to everybody wanting to take the vaccine to help our city become COVID-free, Miner told CTV Morning Live shortly after getting the shot. Miner is the first of 100 people receiving the vaccine in Ottawa on Tuesday. She said she s happy to know she will soon be able to work with residents at the home knowing that she, and they, will be safe.
iPolitics By Iain Sherriff-Scott. Published on Dec 14, 2020 2:23pm Ontario Premier Doug Ford greets the arrival of the first COVID-19 vaccines to reach Canada on Dec. 13. (Photo supplied by the premier s office)
Ontario Premier Doug Ford hailed the first COVID-19 vaccinations to arrive in the province as a “watershed moment” on Monday, but urged residents to remain patient while case numbers approach a record high.
“This is the biggest immunization program in a century, and our vaccine supply will arrive in stages,” Ford said in a statement.
“(Retired) general (Rick) Hillier and the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force are working with Health Canada and other provincial and territorial partners to ensure the vaccines are distributed quickly, so people can get immunized as soon as possible,” he said.
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Gisele Levesque, a resident of a Quebec City long-term care facility, on Monday became the first person in Canada to be inoculated against the coronavirus. Photo courtesy of Quebec Premier Francois Legault/Twitter
Dec. 15 (UPI) The government of Canada has inoculated its first citizens against the coronavirus, officials said.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu announced during a press conference on Monday out front of the Maimonides Geriatric Center in Montreal, Quebec, that the rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has begun.
Advertisement It s really good news for Canada, it s really good news for Quebec, it s really good for everybody across the country, she said.
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