WATCH: First coronavirus vaccine in Canada administered to personal support worker in Ontario

The very first coronavirus vaccine administered in Canada was given to an Ontario personal support worker Anita Quidangen.

The crowd can be heard clapping and cheering as Quidangen is injected with the vaccine, marking the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic which has plagued Canada for nearly a year and has claimed the lives of over 13,000 Canadians. According to protocol, Quidangen will later need to receive a second, larger dosage of the vaccine.

Canada Health approved the coronavirus mRNA vaccine for use by the public last week after the completion of clinical trials. Polling data shows that nearly two-thirds of Canadians plan to get the vaccine for the virus.

The vaccine was developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, and will be followed by more vaccines developed by companies such as Moderna. The vaccine has no known serious side effects, although some who take it have reported experiencing chills and fever for up to two days after injection, as well as pain surrounding the area in which the shot was taken as is common with vaccines and flu shots.

Some reports from the United Kingdom, the first country to receive the vaccine, have claimed that four vaccinated individuals experienced Bell's palsy, a temporary but nonthreatening paralysis of muscles in the face, but the American Centre for Disease Control (CDC) says that the relationship does not appear to be causal. Experts have further stated that the number of individuals who got it after being vaccinated is consistent with the rate of Bell's Palsy among the general population.

The Canadian government expects that the large-scale rollout of vaccines will begin in January of 2021, with healthcare professionals and at-risk populations being favoured for early vaccinations while supply is still low. The government further predicts that the majority of Canadians will be vaccinated by the beginning of the summer.