Holiday Brief: Second COVID-19 vaccine approved By iPolitics. Published on Dec 23, 2020 12:06pm Shipments of initial doses of COVID-19 vaccines are arriving at selected ports of entry in Canada.
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By David Ljunggren and Julie Gordon
OTTAWA, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Canada approved Moderna Inc s coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, the second country to do so, paving the way for health authorities to step up an inoculation campaign against a worsening second wave.
By the end of the year, Canada will receive up to 168,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine, which officials say will start to be administered in remote northern areas.
By Jan. 31, Canada should have almost 1.2 million doses from both Moderna and Pfizer Inc, whose vaccine developed with German partner BioNTech SE was approved by Ottawa earlier this month. That figure will rise to 6 million by the end of March. Canada needs about 80 million doses in total.
Residents, staff at some long-term care facilities to receive COVID-19 vaccine next week Keisha Rowe, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
CVS Health to begin vaccinations at LTC facilities in the U.S.
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Residents and staff living in some of Mississippi s long-term care facilities will be able to receive COVID-19 vaccinations as soon as next week.
CVS Health announced Monday that residents and staff at 211 facilities in Mississippi, and thousands more in facilities across 35 other states, will begin receiving vaccinations on Dec. 28. I m grateful for the herculean efforts of everyone involved, including our health care professionals who will be deployed throughout the country to bring peace of mind to long-term care facility staff, residents and their loved ones, Larry Merlo, president and chief executive officer of CVS Health, said in a statement.
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Additional countries have closed their borders Monday to the United Kingdom, as officials try to stop a highly infectious new strain of the coronavirus from spreading. The new restrictions are causing a global panic and travel chaos, introducing the prospect of a food shortage in Britain just several days before Brexit takes effect.
India, Hong Kong, Russia, Poland and Switzerland banned travel for people from the UK, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned that the mutated variant was 70% more contagious. In all, more than 30 nations in Europe and across the world have now suspended travel with the UK. But Adm. Brett Giroir, on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said on ABC News’ “This Week” that a ban on US travel to the UK wasn’t in the works. “I really don t believe we need to do that yet.”
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