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On December 23, 2020, Health Canada approved the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna. [8] The first tranche of vaccines of a total 53,000 designated for Ontario by the end of 2020 arrived at Toronto Pearson International Airport on December 24. [9] [10] [11] Over the Christmas and holiday season, many vaccination clinics were paused ...
Vaccine Progress Doses ordered Approval Deployment Pfizer–BioNTech: phase III clinical trials 51-76 million [1] [2] [3] 9 December 2020 [4] 14 December 2020 Moderna: phase III clinical trials 44 million [5] 23 December 2020 [6] 31 December 2020 Oxford–AstraZeneca: phase III clinical trials 23.9 million [7] 26 February 2021 [8] 10 March 2021 [9]
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] [19] [20] In June 2021, the group launched their own online tool to find vaccine appointments.
As Ontario expands COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to more people across the province, some are saying it's "basically the Hunger Games out there."
The Janssen COVID-19 vaccine was authorized on March 5, 2021, to become the fourth vaccine to receive Health Canada approval. [63] The vaccine was the first single-dose vaccine to be authorized in Canada. [64] Delivery times for the vaccine remain unknown. [65]
The company was founded in Toronto in March 2020. [2] It provides services to enable home self-testing for COVID-19 and provides testing services for organizations including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Air Canada, [3] Ontario Health, [4] and the Government of Canada.
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 ...
On June 27, 2021, a total of 26,771 doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in a clinic in Scotiabank Arena as part of the "Our Winning Shot" event held to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. This possibly set the world record at the time for the most COVID-19 vaccinations administered in one day in one clinic.