BristolUK

You're looking at it the wrong way

As someone else said, the cock ups have been government related. The NHS is handling the vaccines.

scrubbedexpat091

Now lets save Danny's post and come back to it when Canada hits 20 million and see what month it is and compare again.

Danny B

The NHS has done an outstanding job, they are government funded so I'm sure Boris and his crew will get some credit somewhere.

However, the people on the ground who planned the logistics of getting 20m people inoculated up and down the country within such a short period of time deserve the credit. It's amazing. Just shows what can be done if people work together and local councils recruit volunteers.

Siouxie

Meanwhile Canada is around 41 times bigger than the UK (United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, making Canada 3,999% larger than United Kingdom.) - with huge tracts of land between cities / towns etc., and a population that is spread out. Not forgetting that we are still waiting for supplies, unlike the UK have had to (in the main).

In other news, it looks like the numbers are reducing.. so perhaps there's hope it will be over soon anyway!
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/co...-cases.html#a4

Danny B

I really hope so. Would be nice if almost everyone in Canada had the jab by mid August so we could do one last hurrah before Summer ends.

Revin Kevin

95% of Canada's population live in only 5% of it's territory so the size excuse is a bit of a red herring. Either way the AZ will be a big help to the roll out due to the far easier logistics involved.

scrubbedexpat091

BC is saying all adults will have been offered 1st dose of vaccine by end of July, they adjusted the booster shot time scale for Pfizer and Moderna, so anyone who gets those will get their booster 16 weeks later, and as Astra Zeneca was approved now there will be more supply so they seem more confident, July is better than September I say.

BristolUK

A red herring if the 5% was all in one place, yes, but it's not.
Toronto and Montreal are the two biggest cities, 600km and 6 hours apart.
The next biggest is Vancouver, over 4000km away, the best part of two days by road.

Jerseygirl

Vaccinations seem a shambles in Ontario. Some areas started vaccinations yesterday, Lines of 80+ yr olds stood in the freezing cold. Online registrations filled up very quickly. Toronto, where the Covid numbers are highest, don’t seem to have a plan sorted out yet.

Revin Kevin

That's not great and I supose if the old folks catch thier death of cold it'll be put down as covid! Why don't they just copy what the UK are doing?

Jerseygirl

Hopefully they will get their act together and do just that. The online registration sounds a disaster so far.

BristolUK

Canada ordered enough vaccines to jab everyone several times over. We could have been like pin cushions.
Unfortunately, supplies didn't arrive so there hasn't been much of the stuff to get into arms yet.

scrubbedexpat091

Seems people from Quebec are coming to BC for spring break.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...tler-1.5931510


BC Gov't has been asking people not to travel here, apparently some people can't listen. Whistler doesn't want out of province visitors either.

Hopefully this doesn't cause an uptick in local cases.

Jerseygirl

Not only Quebec...Ontarions too.

Revin Kevin

So there are no travel restrictions within Canada at this time? That is surprising.