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health Canada approved the holding of the country’s first trial of a vaccine against the new coronavirus. On Saturday, said the canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during daily televised address to the nation.

According to him, the clinical trials will take place on the basis of the center of vaccinology of the University Dalhousie in the province of Nova Scotia. Trudeau said that if all goes well, the country will begin to produce and distribute the vaccine, writes TASS.

According to the latest data, in Canada the number of cases infected with coronavirus has reached 76 thousand. Most cases in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario and Alberta. Earlier Trudeau said that the peak of the spread of coronavirus in the country will have at the end of may and the first wave of mass infection will be completed in late summer.