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Beverly Spanier called it a miracle when she was among the first Quebecers to receive the vaccine against COVID-19 on Dec. 14.
But she’s not so happy about getting the second jab on Tuesday, when residents of the Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre in Côte St-Luc will again be among the first in the province to receive the final dose.
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“This is almost three months after the first shot,” said Spanier, 75, a retired teacher at Wagar High School who contracted COVID-19 a few days after receiving the first dose.
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TORONTO/MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canada kicked off its inoculation campaign against COVID-19 on Monday by injecting frontline healthcare workers and elderly nursing home residents, becoming just the third nation in the world to administer the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
The first dose broadcast on live TV went to Anita Quidangen. The personal support worker at the Rekai Centre, a non-profit nursing home for the elderly in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, said she was “excited” to have been first in line.
Healthcare workers in masks and white coats applauded after she was injected.
“It’s a great relief. Clearly, it may only be the beginning of the end but we sense nevertheless that there will be an end to this pandemic,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, making clear he would not be pressing to have his shot immediately.