Canada to mandate Covid19 vaccine for government workers. Other updates: 🇦🇺 Australia's Victoria reports 21 new local cases 🇲🇽 Mexico records 22,758 more cases 🇿🇲 Zambia receives 119,200 AstraZeneca doses More here:
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau watches the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine being extracted while he visits a vaccination clinic at the Palais des Congres, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 15, 2021. The Canadian government has announced that it will require all federal workers to get vaccinated, amid a surge in virus cases due to the Delta variant.
Of the new cases, 10 have spent time outside while infectious, the state's health department said. All cases were linked to a current outbreak. Canada will receive 40 million doses, as per the deal, with an option for an additional 65 million doses. The agreement will allow access to new vaccine adaptations.
Those figures are up from the 353,859,894 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by August 12 out of 411,253,925 doses delivered. Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary for Technical Services Kennedy Malama said 300,572 AstraZeneca jabs have been administered, along with 105,156 of the second dose.
But those numbers could be put to an immediate test because of the number of public gatherings as Zambia held a general election Thursday.Hawaii bracing for more cases amid surge
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