TORONTO – Progress in the immunization campaign against Covid-19. While vaccination continues non-stop in Ontario and other provinces, at the federal level the Ministry of Health has confirmed the exponential growth in vaccine supplies for this May and June. According to Health Canada data, more than 37 million doses are expected to arrive in Canada between May and June, a quantity that will allow individual provinces and territories to comply with the roadmap established in recent months. (more…)
With pop-up vaccination clinics mostly open to adults in hotspot areas, Canada Post (CP) is taking it one step further. Together with Public health partners, CP is making vaccines more accessible to its employees. (more…)
TORONTO – By the end of June, the vaccination campaign in Ontario will also be extended to young people, from 12 to 17 years of age. Ontario’s Minister of Health, Christine Elliott, however, was keen to clarify that the vaccine against Covid-19 will not be mandatory for this age range. (more…)
TORONTO – Watchword, prudence. US President Joe Biden’s grand opening on the temporary provisioning of patents for Covid-19 vaccines has so far not been followed up in the international community. (more…)
Now, kids between the ages of 12 and 15 can get vaccinated in Canada. Thus, the country becomes the first to authorize the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the range of those ages, while the European Union and the United States, for now, are still reviewing its use in minors. (more…)
