COVID-19 vaccination in Canada is an intergovernmental effort, described as the largest immunization campaign in the country's history, coordinated between the Government of Canada, which acquires and distributes vaccines, and the provincial and territorial governments, which administer them. Vaccination began on December 14, 2020, with Health Canada handling approval and regulation and the Public Health Agency of Canada coordinating distribution and public health response, using the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax vaccines. As recorded in the article, more than 32.6 million people, 85.41 percent of the population, had received at least one dose, more than 31.3 million were fully vaccinated, and more than 19.2 million had received a booster dose.
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COVID-19 vaccination in Canada is an ongoing, intergovernmental effort coordinated between the bodies responsible in the Government of Canada to acquire and distribute vaccines to individual provincial and territorial governments who in turn administer authorized COVID-19 vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.
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The vaccination effort in full is the largest such immunization effort in the nation's history. The vaccination effort began December 14, 2020, and is currently ongoing.
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The vaccination effort in full is the largest such immunization effort in the nation's history. The vaccination effort began December 14, 2020, and is currently ongoing.
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COVID-19 vaccination in Canada is an intergovernmental effort, described as the largest immunization campaign in the country's history, coordinated between the Government of Canada, which acquires and distributes vaccines, and the provincial and territorial governments, which administer them.
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