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New licensing pathway includes an orientation program for IMGs new to practicing in the province.

It's the second vaccine to be approved for that age group, after Health Canada approved Moderna's Spikevax shot in July.

And what are other countries doing to shore up their own supplies?

Singh told reporters Wednesday ahead of a caucus retreat in Halifax that he intends to "continue to force this government to deliver for people.''

Sylvia Jones says long-term care residents and healthcare workers will receive the doses first.

The science table was dissolved this week, but had said it would wrap up its ongoing work. The brief it published Wednesday focused on understanding long COVID.

Health Canada last week approved for people 18 and older an adapted version of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, which targets both the original SARS-CoV-2 virus and the Omicron BA.1 variant.