As an 89-year-old Quebecer, hope in Canada is the first to get Covid-19 vaccinated.

Key points:

1.  The first Canadian to take a Covid-19 vaccine shot was an 89-year-old resident of a long-term care hospital in the province of Quebec.
2. During the coronavirus pandemic, older and infirm occupants of such facilities were the most vulnerable group in Canada.
3. The initial shipments of 30,000 are part of the first instalment of 249,000 that will arrive in Canada throughout the days to follow.
4. Approximately 48 per cent of Canadians now want to be urgently vaccinated, an 8 per cent rise from last month.

The first Canadian to take a Covid-19 vaccine shot was an 89-year-old resident of a long-term care home in the province of Quebec, as the nation is among the first in the world to introduce its coronavirus vaccination project.

Gisèle Lévesque received the Pfizer-BioNTech jab:

The Pfizer-BioNTech jab was received by Gisèle Lévesque in Quebec City and cheered by a small group of health care staff who had assembled to mark the moment.

 During the coronavirus pandemic, older and infirm occupants of such facilities were the most vulnerable group in Canada.

Lévesque was accompanied by the first citizen in Ontario to get the shot, Anita Quidangen, a health care employee in Toronto.

Canada’s Minister Anita Anand stated: 

Anita Anand, Canada’s Minister of Public Services and Procurement, welcomed the launch of the landmark vaccination program, tweeting, “Today, Canada is obtaining 30K shots of the authorized Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.”

The initial shipments of 30,000 are part of the first instalment of 249,000 that will arrive in Canada throughout the days to follow, with millions of more doses anticipated by the end of the first quarter of 2021, as Anand said they would be available by 31 December.

As per the Angus Reid Institute:

According to the non-profit public polling firm Angus Reid Institute, the launch of the vaccination has also given to a dramatic increase in the number of Canadians eager to be immunized towards Covid-19 as early as a vaccine is available to them.

48% of Canadians want to vaccinated urgently:

Approximately 48 per cent of Canadians now want to be urgently vaccinated, an 8 per cent rise from last month, suggesting that scepticism is steadily eroding as news of vaccines in the United Kingdom and the United States come in together with declarations of available jabs in Canada.

The agency noted, however, that while most express a desire for inoculation sooner rather than later in this country, the amount of those who say they won’t get a vaccine has stayed constant at about one in seven.”