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COVID-19: Canada Responds
Ontario Premier Doug Ford on COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution – January 19, 2021
In a news conference at Queen’s Park, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Health Minister Christine Elliott, Long-Term Care Minister Dr. Merrilee Fullerton, and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones provide an update on their government’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic. They are joined by retired general Rick Hillier, Chair of Ontario’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force. The premier calls on the United States to help, by delivering a million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine produced in its Kalamazoo plant. His request comes after the federal government announced that Canada would not receive any vaccine doses from Pfizer the following week. The premier also announces that the first round of vaccination has been completed in 40 per cent of the province’s long-term care homes, including all the ones located in Toronto, Peel, York, and Windsor-Essex. (no interpretation)