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In 2020 Pantone’s colour of the year choice, Classic Blue, proved eerily prescient. Announced weeks before the first Covid-19 cluster was discovered, it is a shade used for medical scrubs around the globe.
Perhaps knowing that lightning is unlikely to strike twice, for 2021 the US-paint brand’s team of trend forecasters have selected two shades – Ultimate Grey and Illuminating – the second time they have done so in the Colour of the Year’s two decade history.
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Canada on Wednesday approved the use of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE and vaccinations are expected to start next week with high-risk people such as healthcare workers receiving the first doses.
Canada would receive 30,000 doses next week and up to 249,000 by the end of the year.
The following are the current plans by the 10 provinces and three territories to start inoculations:
Immunisation in Canada’s worst-affected province may start on 14 December at two nursing homes. The initial batch is expected to be 4,875 doses.
Canada’s most populous province and the second-worst affected province will start immunisation on 15 December. It expects to receive 6,000 doses on Monday that it will split between two cities, the head of the province’s vaccine deployment program said. Another 90,000 doses are expected by the end of December.
