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(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Canada receives first batch of new coronavirus vaccines, cumulative number of cases exceeds 460,000
China News Service, Toronto, December 13 (Reporter Yu Ruidong) The first batch of new coronavirus vaccines ordered by Canada arrived in the country on the night of December 13. The cumulative number of reported cases in Canada exceeded 460,000 on this day.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on his social media account that the first batch of new coronavirus vaccines jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech has arrived in Canada. He also distributed a photo of a vaccine cargo plane parked at the airport waiting to be unloaded under the watchful eye of Canadian border officials.
Canadian television footage showed the plane landing at an airport in Montreal, Quebec.
Trudeau said this is good news, but the battle against the epidemic is not over. Now we must be more vigilant than ever. We still need to keep wearing masks, wash our hands frequently, avoid meetings and use the official mobile phone epidemic prevention warning app.
Major General Dany Fortin, director of the National Action Center responsible for vaccine distribution, told the media that delivery work is progressing as planned. The vaccines will be delivered to Canada by air and land within the next two days and then distributed to all provinces.
Many Canadian provinces have indicated that they are ready for vaccination. Ontario said it will begin vaccination work in Toronto and Ottawa on the 15th. In Toronto, long-term care workers are expected to be the first to get vaccinated. Quebec, which accounts for 35.6% of the country’s cumulative number of cases, said that vaccination can be started in two long-term care institutions from the 14th.
Canadian public health director Tan Yongshi said in a statement on the 13th that, in the initial stage, the supply of vaccines will be limited. The Canadian government has prepared a phased advocacy plan to prioritize the distribution of vaccines to people who need early vaccination.
The Canadian government announced on December 9 that the new corona vaccine developed by Pfizer and Biotech has been approved. Canadian officials have pre-ordered up to 76 million doses of this vaccine. Trudeau recently stated that 249,000 early arrival doses will arrive in Canada in batches. Canadian officials expect to receive 6 million doses of the vaccine by the end of March 2021. The country has so far purchased approximately 414 million doses of the new corona vaccine from many pharmaceutical companies around the world.
Currently, three vaccines from AstraZeneca, Modena and Johnson & Johnson are awaiting official approval.
As of the night of December 13, a total of 460,743 cases had been reported in Canada, with 5,891 new cases in a single day; 373,253 recovered cases and 13,431 deaths. (End up)
