As of Monday, 67.6 per cent of eligible Canadians are fully vaccinated, including about 3.6-million people who received a combination of vaccines
In Ontario, Sid Van Abbema and his family have been cautiously looking to make travel plans since all three members were fully vaccinated.
But Mr. Van Abbema is left wondering about local requirements on the various islands for which shore excursions are scheduled. The Bahamas, for example, does not currently recognize Covishield, the version of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India that his wife received one dose of. Nor does Denmark, which only accepts vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency, which are currently Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and AstraZeneca.
No other province is currently offering a third dose. On July 25, Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones wrote to Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc saying that those who have had two doses of a Health Canada approved vaccine are considered to be fully immunized and should be treated as such both home and abroad.
“I do expect that as more information becomes available about how safe and effective the different schedules are, countries will be adjusting to accept those schedules,” she said July 27.In an e-mail, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization said that everyone fully vaccinated with any of the vaccines with should be treated the same, regardless of which vaccine they received.
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