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Ontarians can expect to receive an update on the province’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout this afternoon after learning that the government will stop administering the AstraZeneca shot as a first dose.
“My pancreas has stopped working and my body can no longer make insulin,” she said. As someone with a chronic medical condition, by Health Canada’s standards, she’s considered a vulnerable population. Her 12-year-old sister, Juliet, has a different condition but is at-risk too. “I want to keep my kids safe,” their mother, Lindsay Harris, told CTV News Toronto. “For a type-1 diabetic any sort of illness comes with a lot of risk. A stomach flu can send her to the ER.” Health Canada recently approved Pfizer for children ages 12 and up. Some at-risk kids in other provinces, including Alberta, have already received their first dose.
Published Tuesday, May 11, 2021 4:07PM EDT The federal government says it has not received a formal request from Ontario to add further restrictions on international travellers, despite three letters sent by the Ford government in April calling for more measures at the border. In a letter obtained by CP24, Canada’s Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc responded to the two latest letters issued by the Ontario government about the need to enhance measures at the border to curb COVID-19 transmission. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has increasingly been vocal about his call to ban all non-essential travel to Canada as variants of concern are spreading across the province and country, amid a third wave of the pandemic.