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Ontario's first doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to be distributed in Ottawa and Toronto next week

Ford says Ontario is ready to receive the vaccine
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Premier Doug Ford announced today the province expects 'a very small number of doses' of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in the coming days.

Ford says beginning Tuesday, the vaccine will be administered at University Health Network and the Ottawa Hospital to health care workers providing care in long-term care homes and other high-risk settings.

A press release issued today states Ottawa has been selected 'in part to test and validate provincial distribution networks, as well as in recognition of the challenges the region has faced with certain long-term care home outbreaks.'