The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), which led the country’s COVID-19 response, approved $120,000 in funding for specially designed commemorative coins to be given to pandemic health-care workers, according to a report.
Titled the “COVID coin” initiative and approved by PHAC’s president, Harpreet S. Kochhar, in June 2022, the coins are meant to be given to all PHAC employees that worked during the pandemic over the past three years, according to Global News, who obtained documents regarding the initiative through Access to Information.
