Elsewhere, Canada's largest city Toronto will be placed under a new lockdown beginning Monday. And the latest restrictions in Europe include Northern Ireland's decision to shut pubs and shops for an extra two weeks, as Portugal extends a state of emergency until December 8. But health officials in France said three weeks of restrictions appeared to have helped them past the peak of their second wave. Governments are now pinning their hopes on a vaccine that can save them from business and school closures and the stay-at-home orders that put people's mental health under severe strain. Spain is hoping to vaccinate "a very substantial part" of its 47 million population by mid-2021, while the Netherlands is aiming for 3.5 million in the first quarter. The British government said it had asked its independent medicines regulator to study Pfizer/BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine with a view to an imminent rollout.