Canada PM Justin Trudaeu Shows Off Tattoo While Getting COVID-19 Vaccine

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday accompanied his wife, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, to get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, where he showed off a large tattoo.

The Trudeaus visited a vaccine site at a Rexall pharmacy in Ottawa to get the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot.

“I’m very excited,” Trudeau said after rolling up his sleeve.

Trudeau, who was being filmed while being administered the vaccine, unveiled a large bird-like tattoo on his upper left arm.

He likely received the ink during his days as a bouncer, a job he had before being elected Canadian prime minister, according to the New York Post.

Trudeau’s vaccination comes as Canada faces its third wave of the coronavirus pandemic. In a press conference Friday, the prime minister warned about the “serious situation” as several provinces reached record high numbers of new daily COVID-19 cases. Hospital admissions also saw a 35% increase while ICU admissions rose more than 20%.

"Canada continues to face an incredibly serious situation with this third wave, cases are rising rapidly in many cases, in many places, numbers are higher than they have ever been before and many hospitals are stretched way too thin," Trudeau said.

"There is every reason to believe that we're now in the final although toughest stretch of this pandemic, this is not the moment to let up, not even for a second," he continued. "This is the moment for us to dig deep at what is hopefully the very late stages of this pandemic for us all."

In Ontario, the local government extended its state of emergency and shelter-in-place order until May 15. The province also imposed checkpoints to help restrict interprovincial travel.

Severely strained hospitals in the province are undertaking measures to provide care to critically ill patients, including asking children’s hospitals to admit adults as patients.

"We're setting up field hospitals and we're separating critically ill patients from their families by helicoptering them across the province for care, our children's hospitals are now admitting adults as patients. This has never happened in Ontario before, it's never happened in Canada before,” Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Ontario's science advisory co-chair, told CNN.

Data from the provincial Health Ministry showed that there were 851 adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in Ontario’s intensive care units on Sunday. Nearly 600 required ventilators.