Children walk with their parents to Sherwood Park Elementary for their first day back-to-school, in North Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The Fraser Health authority is changing the way it notifies people in schools about their exposures to COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Provincial health officer Doctor Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix are expected to provide more details today about the limited availability of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine starting this week.
Dr. Henry has said staff at long-term care facilities and front-line health-care workers in hospitals are first in line for the vaccine at two locations, one in the Vancouver Coastal Health region and the other in Fraser Health.
The Public Health Agency of Canada said some of the 30,000 initial doses of the vaccine were expected to touch down last night at 14 distribution centres in all 10 provinces, with more arriving today.
Health Canada is expected to approve the Moderna vaccine next as others are also considered for approval.