First COVID-19 vaccine shipments arrive in Canada, more en route

 

 
 
 
 

MONTREAL -- The first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada.

Some of the country's initial 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccines touched down on Sunday night, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Twitter, sharing a photo of a plane being unloaded.

 

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