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Canada will start getting Pfizer Covid vaccines from the US next week, a company spokesperson said, in what is to be the first time the US has allowed that company’s jabs to be exported to Canada.
The Associated Press reports:
Despite Canada’s tightly woven commercial ties with the U.S., it has been getting Pfizer’s vaccines from Belgium until now because U.S. authorities had kept supplies made in the U.S. for domestic use.
Prime minister Justin Trudeau repeated yesterday that starting next week, Canada will be receiving 2 million doses a week from Pfizer alone.
Disneyland in California, US, reopened yesterday after an unprecedented 13-month closure, with hugs and handshakes with characters off limits, and parades and fireworks shows shelved to limit crowding.
The Associated Press has the story:
The world-famous theme park is admitting only state residents and operating under a limited capacity for now with visitors needing to wear masks and only being able to remove them to eat in designated areas.
The reopening highlights a big shift for the nation’s most populous state from just months ago when Covid cases were surging, hospitals were running out of ICU beds, and hundreds of people died from the virus each day.
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