Health-care worker from Toronto and Quebec care home resident get country's first COVID-19 vaccinations

Quebec and Ontario have administered the country's first COVID-19 vaccinations to a health-care worker from a Toronto nursing home and a Quebec care home resident.

Anita Quidangen, a personal support worker at the Rekai Centre, received the first dose at a hospital in Toronto.

Her coworker Derek Thompson was also inoculated and he says the shots represent progress for all front-line workers in the province.

Just shortly before that Quebec also administered its first Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to residents of long-term care homes in Montreal and Quebec City.

In Quebec City, Gisele Levesque, who lives in a long-term care home, became the first Quebecer to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.

Case counts remain stubbornly high in both Quebec and Ontario as the provinces roll out their COVID-19 vaccine programs.

Quebec is reporting 1,620 new infections and Ontario 1,940 new cases.