COVID-19 vaccine ahead of plans to start vaccinating workers at long-term care homes on Tuesday.The local hospital confirmed on Twitter it has received its allotted 3,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, approved for use by Health Canada last week.Today, The Ottawa Hospital received 3,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.This will allow us to vaccinate 1,500 people in the coming days!While our fight against COVID-19 isn’t over, this is an important step in keeping our community safe.
pic.twitter.com/61JHYts4kx— The Ottawa Hospital (@OttawaHospital) December 14, 2020The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic Campus is one of the first provincial hubs designated to administer the virus, in part because it is equipped with the cold storage.