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OTTAWA – Canada is preparing to throw away more than half of its doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine because it could not find any consumers either at home or abroad. Furthermore, it is not known how the millions more doses of Novavax and Medicago, that Canada has purchased, will be used. (more…)
TORONTO – Today, in Ontario stricter public health measures returned, with lower capacity limits in restaurants and social gatherings. Premier Doug Ford announced the new restrictions on Friday, saying the Omicron variant is so contagious that it threatens to “overwhelm the healthcare system.” (more…)
TORONTO – The whole world is on alert. The new Omicron variant of Covid-19, first identified in South Africa, has been classified as “worrying” by the World Health Organization. From just over 200 new cases confirmed per day in recent weeks, South Africa has seen the number of new daily cases rise to more than 3,200 on Saturday, most in Gauteng. (more…)
TORONTO – After last week’s news that 22 million doses of vaccine delivered to Canada are still unused, now Canada is going to buy another 40 million doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine over the next two years. (more…)
OTTAWA – More doses of vaccine arrive in Canada, but at the same time others are thrown away. The situation of immunization in the country is on the verge of paradox. (more…)
TORONTO – After the brief stalemate of recent months, vaccines now continue to flow continuously. This week Canada will receive about 5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine. Five million that will bring the total number of doses received to 68 million, enough to administer two doses to all 33.2 million Canadians aged 12 years and over. Children under the age of 12 will have to wait for the completion of tests in this age group before they can be immunized. (more…)
MASSA CARRARA – Everyone wants the Green Pass but not everyone wants to get vaccinated. Then, there are those who have had more than two doses of vaccine but they just can’t get the Green Pass. It’s the case of Virginia G., the 23-year-old girl from Massa, in Tuscany, a master’s student in Psychology in Pisa, who was injected with six doses of anti-Covid Pfizer vaccine by mistake, on 9 May at the hospital “Noa” di Massa (the number of injected doses was then adjusted from four to six by the ASL of Massa Carrara). (more…)
TORONTO – Ontario sets a new vaccination record; more than 202,000, according to covid19tracker.ca, but at the same time, the problems that emerged on the second vaccination for the residents of the hotspots were not solved. In general, the mass vaccination campaign proceeds in stages dispatched according to the roadmap presented by the provincial government. (more…)
Article by Mariella Policheni — Translation and Video: Luis Aparicio
TORONTO – Os habitantes do Ontário que receberam a primeira dose da vacina Oxford-AstraZeneca poderão receber a segunda dose após oito semanas. Mais uma vez, o governo muda de ideias. E isso acontece apenas dois dias depois. A ministra da Saúde, Christine Elliott, disse na quinta-feira que aqueles que receberam a AstraZeneca como primeira dose teriam que esperar 12 semanas inteiras antes de serem inoculados, mesmo que fosse uma vacina de mRNA. (more…)
TORONTO – The joint effort of the G7 countries will be aimed at ending the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022. This was reiterated today in the final communiqué of the summit in Cornwall. “The Covid-19 pandemic – reads the final message of G7 leaders – will not be under control anywhere until it is everywhere. In an interconnected world, global health and threats to health security do not respect borders.” (more…)
Ontario accelerates on vaccines. Following pressure from doctors and health experts, the increase in the supply of vaccines – and especially the spread of the Delta variant – from Monday those who reside in hotspots will be able to book their appointment to receive the second dose. (more…)
Article by Francesco Veronesi — Translation and Video: CNMNG Staff
TORONTO – The third wave of the pandemic is now over. For several weeks, the overall epidemiological picture in Ontario has been improving significantly, with the collapse of new daily cases, the sharp decrease in hospitalizations and ICU admissions and, more generally, with a mass immunization campaign that is finally at full power. (more…)
COVID-19 vaccine: Ontario is speeding up eligibility for second doses and “the majority of those who want them will be fully immunized by the end of summer”. And the schools will remain closed, Ontario’s premier Doug Ford said at a press conference on Friday morning.
“We’re all getting one step closer to returning to normal,” Ford said. (more…)
TORONTO – As vaccination proceeds in full swing, Ontario has decided what to do with AstraZeneca. The problem is that just under half a million doses produced by the Anglo-Swedish consortium will have to be used by the end of the month, with the deadline set for 31 May. (more…)
LIVORNO – Four doses instead of one were administered to a woman in a vaccination center in Livorno, Tuscany (Italy). (more…)
Por Francesco Veronesi – Video: Luis Aparacio
Progresso na campanha de imunização contra a Covid-19. Enquanto que a vacinação continua sem interrupções no Ontário e em outras províncias, a nível federal, o Ministério da Saúde confirmou o crescimento exponencial no reforço de vacinas para maio e junho. (more…)
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…)
TORONTO – Canada and Ontario are still grappling with the AstraZeneca node. The vaccine, although still considered safe by both Health Canada and the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (Naci) has been suspended as a precaution in some provinces of our country. In Ontario, as explained this week by Chief Medical Officer David Williams, the provisional stop was decided for two reasons: on the one hand the necessary caution pending new data on adverse reactions, on the other hand the lack of new supplies due to the announced delays in deliveries. (more…)
MASSA – Six doses of vaccine. Whole vial. Not even during the Pfizer overdose trial had a similar amount been tested: it stopped at four. But the young woman who was accidentally injected with the “super-vaccine” apparently is fine and after 24H observation in the hospital she was discharged. (more…)
por Francesco Veronesi
TORONTO – O Canadá vai receber mais de 1,9 milhões de doses de vacinas Covid-19 nos próximos sete dias. A confirmação veio da parte do Ministério da Saúde Federal, que sublinhou que a partir de maio os fornecimentos passarão por uma nova aceleração que permitirá ao país cumprir o plano desta campanha nacional de imunização. (more…)
TORONTO – Canada will receive more than 1.9 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines over the next seven days. The confirmation came from the Federal Ministry of Health, which stressed that from May supplies will undergo a further acceleration that will allow the country to comply with the roadmap of this national immunization campaign. (more…)
TORONTO – Covid vaccination in Canada and Ontario does not take off. (more…)
TORONTO – About 5.2 million doses of covid-19 vaccine in two weeks. (more…)
Toronto, April 16: Moderna will deliver fewer vaccine doses to Canada this month than previously thought due to production disruptions. It occurred due to production grapples happened in their European plants. (more…)
TORONTO – More than a million doses of covid-19 vaccine, delivered by federal authorities to Ontario health authorities, are ready to be administered but still unused. (more…)
TORONTO – An important new step forward in the immunization campaign against Covid-19 in Canada. (more…)
TORONTO – New acceleration on the vaccination front. Next week, 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive in Canada as part of the agreement signed between the federal government and the Joe Biden administration in the United States. (more…)
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