Phyllis Ridgway, the oldest known living person in Canada, received a COVID-19 vaccination on Saturday at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Ridgway, who was born in 1907, turned 114 on March 10 — just a few days before she was vaccinated. The health centre shared a video of Ridgway receiving her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from a nurse while surrounded by birthday balloons. As of Friday, Ontario has administered 1,116,496 doses of COVID-19 vaccines.The province began administering vaccines to seniors aged 80 and older earlier this month as part of its Phase 1 vaccination rollout. As of Saturday, some family doctors in Ontario started administering COVID-19 vaccinations to seniors, including those aged 60 to 64, in six regions.

Source: CBC News March 14, 2021 00:22 UTC