Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced Monday that Gen. Rick Hillier would head up a task force charged with distributing a COVID-19 to Ontarians once one is approved, saying that distributing the vaccine would be “the largest logistical undertaking in a generation.”

Ford made the announcement during a briefing on the province’s COVID-19 response, and on the same day Toronto and Peel Region were put on lockdown because of surging case numbers in those regions.

Associate chief medical officer of health Dr. Barbara Yaffe defended the decision to put the two regions on lockdown, saying Ontario “cannot let the numbers just keep going up without doing what needs to be done.

Ontario reported 1,589 new cases of coronavirus on Monday, a new single-day record of cases to date, bringing the provincial total to 105,501.

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