The hundreds of thousands of Ontarians who got a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine will be able to get a second dose.
"Starting Tuesday, April 20, 2021, Ontario will offer the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to individuals aged 40 and over at pharmacy and primary care settings across the province.
As we continue to fight COVID-19, we are doing everything possible to get as many vaccines into arms as quickly and safely as possible. Dr. David Williams, Ontario's chief medical officer of health, announced Tuesday that the province will stop administering first doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine due to increased concerns around vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), which causes blood clots. Christine Elliott, Ontario’s health minister, received the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on camera Monday morning.. She got her first dose at a Toronto pharmacy shortly after 9:15 a.m. Ontario says the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will be offered to individuals 40 years old and over in pharmacies and primary care settings starting on Tuesday. Ontario is giving a shot in the arm to its COVID-19 vaccination efforts by approving the AstraZeneca vaccine for second doses, starting next week with people who got their first jabs in … The province’s chief medical officer of … Ontario will limit the AstraZeneca vaccine to people under the age of 65 on the recommendations of the National Advisory Committee for Immunization (NACI), Ontario… Ontario is pausing its province-wide rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine “out an abundance of caution” citing recent evidence of an increase in VITT blood clotting incidents. As of May 8, 651,012 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were administered with a rate of VITT of 0.9 per 100,000 doses administered in Ontario, and 202,873 doses of the COVISHIELD vaccine … TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Ontario will begin offering AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday to people turning 40 or older this year, according to … On Friday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford received his first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on camera at a Shopper’s Drug Mart in Etobicoke, Ont.