COVID-19 vaccine in the province.The exact nature of the announcement wasn’t clear, but at around 3:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday the provincial government issued a statement to say the province’s chief medical officer of health, Dr.
David Williams, and other officials were going to provide an update “on the status of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Ontario” at 4 p.m.The development came on the same day the Alberta government announced it was going to stop providing first doses of the vaccine.
Alberta stops giving first doses of AstraZeneca vaccine due to supply issues Alberta Health spokesperson Tom McMillan said since there are no known future shipments of AstraZeneca at this time, a determination was made to utilize the remaining supply as second.