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On December 9, 2020, Health Canada approved the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.Vaccines were distributed amongst the provinces by the Federal government. [3] Ontario received an initial delivery of 6,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine [4] of a total of 90,000 doses to be received before the end of 2020. [5]
Ontario's booking system for COVID-19 vaccines, both online and via telephone, will launch on March 15.
Health Canada received a submission from Moderna on June 29, 2023, for yet another reformulated COVID-19 vaccine based on the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant of SARS-CoV-2. [131] The updated version was tested in a small human trial of 101 participants who had previously received four doses of previous formulations of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
The Ontario government announced a COVID-19 vaccine certification system that came into effect on 22 September. [40] It was met with protests. [40] On October 28, 2021, Chief Medical Officer of Health of Ontario Kieran Moore said that Ontario will not integrate a COVID-19 vaccine requirement into the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) "at ...
As Ontario expands COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to more people across the province, some are saying it's "basically the Hunger Games out there."
Following Health Canada's approval of various COVID-19 vaccines, widespread plans for vaccinations began during the week of December 14, 2020. [15] Early vaccination efforts were highly criticized and a shortage of vaccine supply in late January and early February slowed immunization rollout significantly for a number of weeks. [16]
Vaccine Hunters spent considerable time working on high public interest for the vaccine. [17] During the second dose rollout of the vaccine in Ontario, Vaccine Hunters Canada assisted in getting people to clinics. However, there were reports of verbal abuse of staff due to large volumes of people flooding the clinics, many were ineligible. [18 ...
On December 9, Health Canada approved the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use in Canada. [95] The first doses of the vaccine in Ontario were administered to healthcare workers in the University Health Network in Toronto and The Ottawa Hospital in Ottawa beginning December 14. [96]