Canadian government officials are expected to hold a technical briefing Wednesday on the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.

The first doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were administered Monday in Quebec and Ontario.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada has secured 168,000 coronavirus vaccines from American biotechnology company Moderna that, pending regulatory approval, should arrive before the end of December.

Canada added 6,345 new infections of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday. The country has now seen 474,820 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

Health officials across Canada also said 106 more people have died after contracting COVID-19, pushing the total death toll to 13,659.

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