Canada
Canada: Over 50 pct population administered at least 1 dose of vaccine
Ottawa/UNI: More than half of Canada’s population has received at least one dose of a vaccine against COVID-19, a local TV channel said Sunday.
The coronavirus immunity milestone was reached on Saturday when health authorities announced that over 20.6 million vaccine doses had been administered across Canada.
More than 19 million people received one shot, while 1.6 million have been fully vaccinated. Thus, according to CBC, 50.01 per cent of the Canadian population has received at least one coronavirus vaccine dose.
Canada has approved four vaccines against COVID-19: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.
Canada has more than 1.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases, while the country’s COVID-19 death toll stands at over 25,000.
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