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TTAWA -- Compared to January, Canadians overall perceptions of the federal and provincial governments’ vaccine rollout strategies are improving, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by Nanos Research and commissioned by CTV News, asked more than 1,000 Canadians between Feb. 28 and March 4 to rate the job of both entities on a scale of zero to 10, where the former is considered “a very poor job” and the latter is deemed a “very good job.”
Canadians ranked the job of their provincial governments at 6.4, up from a score of 5.5 in January. At the national level, Canadians’ impressions climbed from 4.7 in January to 5.7 a month later. Notably, this survey was conducted immediately following Health Canada’s approval of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Feb. 26 and prior to the regulatory
body’s approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on March 5. Quebec residents recorded their provincial g o v e r n m e n t ’s performance most favourably at 8; followed by Atlantic Canada at 7.3; B.C. at 7; the Prairies at 5.7; and Ontario at 5.4. “Canadians rate the job their provincial government (mean score of 6.4 out of 10) is doing with the vaccine rollout higher than they do the Government of Canada (mean score of 5.7 out of 10),” reads the survey. GETTING VACCINATED The number of Canadians who report they will definitely receive the COVID-19 vaccine is also on the rise. Seventy-one per cent of Canadians say they will get the shot when it’s made available to them, up from 68 per cent in December, 2020. Meanwhile, the percentage of Canadians who say they will definitely not take it, has gone up by one per cent, now hovering at 6 per cent. “Canadians from Ontario (75 per cent) and B.C. (74 per cent) are more likely to say they will definitely take the vaccine when it is available compared to residents from the Prairies (65 per cent) and the Atlantic provinces (66 per cent),” reads the survey. To that end, older Canadians are more
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SLAMABAD: Realising the pace at which inflation has been rising in the country, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday announced that the government would initiate a revolutionary programme of direct subsidy to 30 million families — around half of the country’s population — from June to enable them to get essential food items. The prime minister made the announcement while addressing a ceremony held to launch the ‘Koi Bhuka Na Soye’ (No one goes to bed hungry) programme, under which the poor and labour classes will be provided free meal boxes twice a day through mobile trucks at various points of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Under the programme, he said, a concept of mobile kitchens (kitchens on trucks) had been introduced which would be plied all over the country to provide free meal to the needy and hungry people.
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COVID-19 restrictions: Outdoor gatherings permitted in B.C. ahead of spring break
ANCOUVER -- After months of severe COVID-19 restrictions limiting social gatherings in B.C., the province’s top doctor announced Thursday that the rules are relaxing slightly. Dr. Bonnie Henry made the announcement during a COVID-19 modelling update, where she reflected on the past year of the pandemic in the province. Henry said even though daily case counts have increased slightly in recent days, hospi-
“Koi Bhuka Na Soye programme is the beginning of Pakistan’s transformation into a welfare state,” the prime minister said at the launching ceremony during his visit to an Ehsaas Langar Khana in the federal capital. Launches ‘Koi Bhuka Na Soye’ programme for poor, labourers PM Khan said that through the subsidy programme, to be carried out under the umbrella of Ehsaas, amounts would be directly credited to the accounts of poor people, enabling them to buy basic items like wheat flour, sugar, ghee, pulses, etc. He said the government would launch a similar programme for farmers to help them get fertiliser and other agricultural inputs on subsidised rates. The prime minister said that with 70 per cent of work already completed on the direct subsidy programme, progress on the remaining 30pc was under way. He appreciated Ehsaas and Baitul Mal
talizations and deaths are decreasing. “We know where the riskiest settings are. We know that it is when we’re indoors, when we’re (in) crowded situations, when we’re close to others,” Henry said. “That has been the focus of … the measures we have in place in many indoor settings.” Under the updated restrictions, which were announced just two days before spring break begins for most B.C. schools, small outdoor gatherings are permitted, but with no
Inshaallah You will get Miracle’s hard copy from March 26, 2021 edition more than 10 people and people should still keep their distance. Henry said those 10 people must remain the same and that gatherings have to be outside, adding “smaller is better.” “I recognize the transmissibility decreases, we’re hoping that that continues through the spring,” Henry said. “Outdoors is where we need to focus
right now. So being able to have those important connections that we need, but do them in a way that’s not going to put people at risk.” Earlier this week, CTV News Vancouver spoke with a Canadian epidemiologist who said researchers have found it “very hard” to find even a single case of To be Continued at page 7