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Posted: Dec 21, 2020 10:42 AM AT | Last Updated: December 21, 2020 Images of people calmly receiving injections can help people deal with their fears. Here, Debbie Lawless, a registered nurse at The Garden Home in Charlottetown, receives one of the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Prince Edward Island. (Kirk Pennell/CBC)

HALIFAX -- Prince Edward Island is ending the province's two-week 'circuit-breaker' lockdown, effective Friday. During a news update Thursday, Dr. Heather Morrison, P.E.I.’s chief medical officer of health, announced that the province will loosen the restrictions that were implemented on Dec. 7, and originally announced to last until Dec. 21. “I am confident that Islanders will respect these measures and follow the rules. Residents of P.E.I. have demonstrated their resilience, support, patience and compliance with public health measures since the pandemic began,” said Morrison on Th...

Posted: Dec 16, 2020 12:15 PM AT | Last Updated: December 16, 2020 Dr. Chris Lantz was the first of three P.E.I. health-care workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.(Ken Linton/CBC) There was a round of applause and a few tears at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Wednesday as P.E.I. administered its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.  There was also a huge grin on the face of P.E.I.'s chief public health officer, though you couldn't see it under her mask. P.E.I. chief of nursing said she felt like dancing. "It is a great day to celebrate," said Marion Dowling.

December 16, 2020 - 4:43 PM The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (All times Eastern): 7:35 p.m. Alberta's top doctor says an Edmonton arena is being set up as an alternate hospital with help from the Canadian Red Cross. Chief medical health officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw says Alberta Health Services and the national charity are putting 100 patient beds in the Butterdome arena at the University of Alberta. She says it will take a few weeks to set up the site, but there is no plan to staff it unless the beds are needed. Another alternate site was previously set up at Ca...