According to the report of the Canadian health authorities, today the figure of 50% of vaccination was reached with the first dose of citizens nationwide. Although exceeding this threshold seems encouraging and fosters optimism, some infectious disease and epidemiology experts feel that this is still insufficient to massively reduce the restrictions imposed.
Raywat Deonandan, an epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa, told The Canadian Press that the declining number of cases, deaths and hospitalizations in much of Canada was directly linked to the progress of the vaccination campaign.
After a slow start in April, the vaccination process underwent a rapid increase during May and last week alone, on average more than 370,000 doses were administered daily across the country.
It seems that most Canadians are in favor of vaccination and even some of them waited for many hours to be queued outside the temporary vaccination clinics despite the bad weather in some regions.
This means that people are eager to overcome this situation and contribute to overcoming it, said epidemiologist Deonandan. According to Radio Canada, other experts who continue to monitor pandemic data have expressed the same optimism. However, some of them, remembering that half of the population is not yet vaccinated, continue to call for the exit from the situation of restrictive measures to be done very carefully and gradually.
According to Health Canada, at least 75% of Canadians aged 12 and over will need to take one dose and 20% take both before a significant reduction in restrictive measures. Meanwhile, the number of citizens who have received two doses is approximately 5%.
