Gisele Levesque, the First Person in Canada To Be Vaxinated Against Bs-19, Has Died

Gisele Levesque, the First Person in Canada To Be Vaxinated Against Bs-19, Has Died

By The Canadian Press Staff

Gisele Levesque becomes the first Quebecer to get the COVID-19 vaccine

 

QUEBEC CITY — A Quebec woman who was the first person in Canada to receive a COVID-19 vaccine has died.

Gisele Levesque, 89, died on June 28 peacefully of natural causes, surrounded by family, according to the public health authority in Quebec City.

In a statement, the health authority said her death was not related to COVID-19.

Levesque received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Dec. 14 at the CHSLD St-Antoine, a long-term care home in Quebec City.

The health authority says she was the first Canadian to be inoculated in the country.

The agency describes her as a figure of hope in the fight against the novel coronavirus.


Original source: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/gisele-levesque-the-first-person-in-canada-to-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19-has-died-1.5496112

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