Niagara's Acting Medical Officer of Health Dr. Mustafa Hirji says that the region's first batch of COVID-19 vaccines may cover nearly all of the area's long term care residents.
As reported by The St. Catharines Standard, Hirji estimates that Ontario will receive about 85,000 doses of the vaccine in the first three months of 2021.
He says that the country's first shipments of the Pfizer vaccine will be distributed based on population, and he thinks that each long term care resident in Niagara should be able to get one dose.
The Pfizer vaccine, which is still awaiting approval by Health Canada, requires two shots, about three weeks apart.
Hirji estimates that the second doses would arrive a few weeks after the first ones.
It is not known yet when inoculations will arrive in Niagara, or even if the area will receive any of the first doses.
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