GENERAL LEADING CANADA VACCINE DRIVE STEPS ASIDE AMID PROBE

MONTREAL: The general in charge of coordinating Canada’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign has left his post in the Public Health Agency as he is being investigated by the military, the Department of National Defense said Friday. Formerly commander of the NATO mission in Iraq, Major-General Dany Fortin has left his public health assignment “pending the results of a military investigation,” authorities said in a brief statement, without elaborating. Fortin was appointed last November by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to coordinate the logistics of the largest vaccination campaign in Canadian history. The Canadian military is responsible, in collaboration with the public health agency, for distributing the vaccine in remote communities of this vast country. The military has been shaken in recent months by a series of investigations into high-ranking officers accused of sexual misconduct.