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  TORONTO -- When Canadian ice cream company Chapman’s first heard of the need for sub-zero freezers for the COVID-19 vaccine, they saw an opportunity to step up and help. The Markdale, Ont.-based company has secured two medical-grade deep freezers capable of dropping to -80 C to store the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccines. The freezers will be used to store vaccines in Ontario’s Grey-Bruce County, where the company currently operates. “We made the decision at that point, you know what, let’s put in an order and get a couple of these and make sure our health unit has them to u...

  FREDERICTON -- It's the season of giving, and for a tuna processing company on Prince Edward Island, offering up two of their ultra-low temperature freezers to New Brunswick to store COVID-19 vaccines was in their nature. "They're not the typical freezer you can just pick up at the local appliance store," said Jason Tompkins of One Tuna in North Lake, P.E.I. The New Brunswick government accepted and one is on its way to the province now. "And we want to thank him very much for that offer," said Health Minister Dorothy Shephard. That jovial spirit extended through much of the legislat...

Posted: Dec 16, 2020 6:30 AM AT | Last Updated: December 16, 2020 Personal support worker Johanne Lamesse receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Ottawa Hospital on Tuesday. Quebec and Ontario residents were the first in the country to be vaccinated this week. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

Prince Edward Island reported no new cases of COVID-19 on Friday. With one previously reported case recovered, the number of active cases on the island has dropped to 12.

The owner of a bluefin tuna exporting company in eastern Prince Edward Island has offered up two freezers to the provincial government as public health officials prepare to vaccinate Islanders against COVID-19.