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Teens get vaccines in Canadian provinces

Toronto, May 25: As Canada reported partially immunizing 50 percent of residents against COVID-19, more provinces stepped up efforts to add younger age groups to be vaccinated. These provinces have already expanded vaccine eligibility to those 12 and over, including Newfoundland and Labrador, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta. Even though, nationally, new COVID-19 cases continued to trend below the third-wave peaks reported in mid-April, although case counts remained high in several provinces.