Seven Residents at Montreal Care Home Get COVID-19 After Receiving First Vaccine Dose

An ambulance leaves Maimonides Geriatric Centre in Montreal, on Nov. 29, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada and around the world. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

MONTREAL—Seven residents of a Montreal long-term care centre who received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have contracted COVID-19.

Management at the Maimonides Geriatric Centre informed patients in a notice sent Tuesday, noting that residents were infected within the first 28 days of receiving their first of two vaccine doses.