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As of 8 p.m. on Friday, 6,925,232 vaccine doses have been administered across the province to date, according to Health Minister Christine Elliott. However, Friday's vaccination tally marks a milestone for Ontario. With 154,104 doses administered, the number is the highest single-day total to date, according to Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases doctor who is a member of the province's COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force. Update: The finally tally was 154,104 #COVID19 vaccines administered on May 14th in Ontario - the highest number to date.This is an enormous team effort, and ...

Dr. Isaac Bogoch told CTV News Channel’s Power Play on Friday that younger people in Ontario who are over 18 will likely get vaccinated in June.

Published Wednesday, April 21, 2021 2:18PM EDT Ontario hit a new single-day vaccination record Tuesday as those 40 and over rushed to get shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine made available to them through a lowered age threshold at pharmacies. Speaking with CP24 Wednesday morning, Dr. Isaac Bogoch said the vaccine is "flying off the shelves" at pharmacies, catapulting Ontario's vaccination numbers. Ontario managed to give out 136,695 vaccine jabs by 8 p.m. Tuesday — roughly 46,000 doses more than the previous day and a new single-day record in the province’s vaccination eff...

Date Time Share Amid third wave, University of Toronto’s Homer Tien takes over province’s COVID-19 vaccine task force: CBC Tien, who’s also a surgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the president and CEO of Ornge, Ontario’s air ambulance agency, replaced retired Gen. Rick Hillier, whose contract expired at the end of March. Tien has been a member of the task force since its inception and was instrumental in executing Operation Remote Immunity, a mission to immunize remote and isolated Indigenous communities. The province’s vaccination campaign continues to roll out amid su...

Essential workers in Ottawa ready for vaccination Multi-Skilled Journalist Colton Praill Cases of COVID-19 in the capital are skyrocketing. The city’s top doctor warning the curve has only worsened since moving into the red zone. According to some medical experts, this is the pandemic within the COVID-19 pandemic. “This isn’t necessarily a new pandemic but it's a new pandemic within the existing pandemic. The face of the disease has changed, the crisis within the hospitals is of a different, more urgent nature,” epidemiologist Dr. Raywat Deonandan said. Deonandan says the new vari...