<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will receive the Covid-19 shot in public once those in his age group are in line to be vaccinated, he said in an interview broadcast Sunday.</p>.<p>Canada began vaccinating people in high-risk categories — including frontline health care workers and residents and staff of long-term care facilities — on December 14, with a relatively limited supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.</p>.<p>"Absolutely," Trudeau told the CBC public network in a year-end interview. "When my turn comes, I will do it publicly and enthusiastically."</p>.<p>Trudeau added that he would follow the recommendations of public health experts.</p>.<p>"Whenever, you know, healthy adults in their 40s are open to getting vaccines, I'll be getting vaccinated," said the prime minister, who turns 49 on Christmas Day, December 25.</p>.<p>Trudeau's wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau tested positive for the coronavirus in March, and he spent two weeks in self-imposed quarantine.</p>.<p>He said Sunday he might have had an extremely mild case of the disease.</p>.<p>"It's very possible that I caught it," Trudeau said. "I don't know. I was absolutely asymptomatic."</p>.<p>He said doctors told him to get tested if he had so much as a sniffle, but "(I) didn't have a sniffle."</p>.<p>Canada expects to receive additional vaccine doses soon both from the Pfizer and Moderna suppliers, once health officials authorize the latter.</p>.<p>The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/canada-inks-deal-to-accelerate-deliveries-of-moderna-covid-19-vaccine-amid-second-wave-surge-927851.html">Moderna authorization</a> is expected "in coming weeks," according to the government's Health Canada.</p>.<p>In total, Canada — a country of 38 million — has placed orders or options on more than 400 million doses of vaccine from seven pharmaceutical groups.</p>.<p>The country will share any excess doses with other countries, Trudeau said in a separate interview Sunday with the CTV network.</p>.<p>The spread of the virus has accelerated as the year-end holidays approach.</p>.<p>On Saturday, Canada passed the grim mark of 500,000 confirmed cases, reaching more than 509,000 by Sunday, along with 14,212 deaths, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.</p>.<p>Quebec, the province with the highest toll, set a new daily record Sunday with 2,146 new cases.</p>
<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will receive the Covid-19 shot in public once those in his age group are in line to be vaccinated, he said in an interview broadcast Sunday.</p>.<p>Canada began vaccinating people in high-risk categories — including frontline health care workers and residents and staff of long-term care facilities — on December 14, with a relatively limited supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.</p>.<p>"Absolutely," Trudeau told the CBC public network in a year-end interview. "When my turn comes, I will do it publicly and enthusiastically."</p>.<p>Trudeau added that he would follow the recommendations of public health experts.</p>.<p>"Whenever, you know, healthy adults in their 40s are open to getting vaccines, I'll be getting vaccinated," said the prime minister, who turns 49 on Christmas Day, December 25.</p>.<p>Trudeau's wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau tested positive for the coronavirus in March, and he spent two weeks in self-imposed quarantine.</p>.<p>He said Sunday he might have had an extremely mild case of the disease.</p>.<p>"It's very possible that I caught it," Trudeau said. "I don't know. I was absolutely asymptomatic."</p>.<p>He said doctors told him to get tested if he had so much as a sniffle, but "(I) didn't have a sniffle."</p>.<p>Canada expects to receive additional vaccine doses soon both from the Pfizer and Moderna suppliers, once health officials authorize the latter.</p>.<p>The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/canada-inks-deal-to-accelerate-deliveries-of-moderna-covid-19-vaccine-amid-second-wave-surge-927851.html">Moderna authorization</a> is expected "in coming weeks," according to the government's Health Canada.</p>.<p>In total, Canada — a country of 38 million — has placed orders or options on more than 400 million doses of vaccine from seven pharmaceutical groups.</p>.<p>The country will share any excess doses with other countries, Trudeau said in a separate interview Sunday with the CTV network.</p>.<p>The spread of the virus has accelerated as the year-end holidays approach.</p>.<p>On Saturday, Canada passed the grim mark of 500,000 confirmed cases, reaching more than 509,000 by Sunday, along with 14,212 deaths, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.</p>.<p>Quebec, the province with the highest toll, set a new daily record Sunday with 2,146 new cases.</p>