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Canada's vaccine rollout reached four more provinces on Wednesday, with health-care workers being inoculated against COVID-19 as officials warned hospitals in some areas are nearing a breaking point. Nurses were first in line for the Pfizer-BioNTech shot in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, while Prince Edward Island administered the vaccine first to workers at a long-term care home and Manitoba bestowed the honour on an ICU doctor. "It's an early Christmas present," said Ellen Foley-Vick, a public health nurse who was first to receive the vaccine in St. John's, N.L. Get top storie...

  HALIFAX -- Doctors, nurses and other front-line health-care workers on Wednesday were the first people in Atlantic Canada to be given the COVID-19 vaccine. Ellen Foley-Vick, a public health nurse in St. John's, N.L., received the province's first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Memorial University, in a room full of socially distanced onlookers whose masks could not hide their smiles. Newfoundland and Labrador's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, administered the symbolic first vaccine and laughed as she put a bandage on Foley-Vick's arm. Premier Andrew Fure...

Winnipeg Free Press By: Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press Posted: Last Modified: 6:32 PM CST Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 Canada's vaccine rollout reached four more provinces on Wednesday, with health-care workers being inoculated against COVID-19 as officials warned hospitals in some areas are nearing a breaking point. Francesca Paceri, a registered pharmacist technician carefully fills the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine at a clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tue...