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OTTAWA The first shipment of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine arrived Ottawa today, with the first health care workers providing care in long-term care homes rolling up their sleeves to get the shot on Tuesday. Today, The Ottawa Hospital received 3,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. This will allow us to vaccinate 1,500 people in the coming days! While our fight against COVID-19 isn’t over, this is an important step in keeping our community safe. pic.twitter.com/61JHYts4kx The Ottawa Hospital (@OttawaHospital) December 14, 2020 Three-thousand doses of COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus, enough to vaccinate 1,500 people. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted Sunday evening that the COVID-19 vaccines had arrived in Canada.
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Ontario Begins Administering First Doses of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine
The Ontario government says it will administer the province’s first COVID-19 vaccination on Monday, one day ahead of the planned schedule.
The first dose will be received by a health care worker in Toronto, according to a spokesperson from the Premier Doug Ford’s office. The office has said the first shots will be administered at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto while the remainder will head to The Ottawa Hospital.
On Sunday night, the province received its 6,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines at Hamilton Airport, of which Toronto and Ottawa will receive 3,000 doses each. The office said Ford was on site when the first doses of the vaccine touched down in Ontario.
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Shipments of initial doses of COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Montreal, Sunday, Dec.13, 2020. Ontario will administer the province s first COVID-19 vaccination today, with a health-care worker set to receive the dose in Toronto. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Canadian Armed Forces-Cpl Matthew Tower MANDATORY CREDIT December 14, 2020 - 8:57 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 drug company Pfizer were administered in Quebec City and Toronto within roughly half an hour of each other, creating some confusion about which of the two hard-hit provinces could lay claim to being the first in the country to hand out doses.