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Image Credit - Global News[/caption]Canada now has a record 460,000 number of cases of coronavirus affected people. The news came following the first shipment of the vaccine into the country on Sunday.
Canadian officials took to social media to announce the news of the first flight delivering the Pfizer-BionNTech vaccine on Sunday evening.
A part of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s official tweet that announced the shipment of the first batch of vaccines said that the Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in the country.
The tweet also said that also this may be good news, the fight against the virus is still not over as everyone should now be vigilant more than ever.
A statement came in from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) confirming previous comments by Major-General Dany Fortin who had said that the first few flights carrying the new vaccine would arrive in the country on Sunday night.
Fortin revealed during an interview with CBC on Sunday morning that the flights carrying the virus will start arriving the day after the interview was held. Some flights will be arriving the very night while some will arrive the next day. The vaccines are also being transported via trucks which will cross the border and enter Canada the following day. So within a day or two, all vaccines from the first batch will reach the country.
Although PHAC did not reveal any exact timeline regarding the arrival of the vaccines in Canada, they pointed to Fortin’s comments who said that the scheduled time for the delivery of the vaccines was still under review and was currently being monitored every hour with the help of UPS.
The first batch will be carrying the initial 30,000 does that will be distributed through 14 official centers. The vaccine was approved by Health Canada on Wednesday and health authorities already have a rough outline of how the vaccines will be distributed starting with front-line healthcare workers and at-risk personals before anyone else.
With this positive news comes the news of 5,891 new cases as of Sunday, increasing the total infected numbers to 460,373.
New reports of 81 new deaths were also released on Sunday raising the total number of deaths to 13,431. 371,673 have recovered while 16,221,000 tests have been administered.
The number of cases dipped under 6,000 in two weeks since Sunday. However, figures were not released by the provinces of B.C. and P.E.I, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories.
Quebec reported 1994 new cases with 33 new deaths.
Alberta recorded the highest ever increase in the number of deaths on Sunday. According to health authorities, Alberta reported 22 new deaths and 1717 new cases on Sunday. On the other hand, Ontario reported 1677 new cases and 16 new deaths.
Saskatchewan has 222 new cases and Manitoba, 273 more as both provinces have a standing infected number at 11,971 and 21,023, respectively increasing the collective number of cases.
