1.5M more Pfizer vaccine doses coming in March: Trudeau
Posted Mar 5, 2021 10:12 am.
Last Updated Mar 5, 2021 3:24 pm.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will get an extra 1.5 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine delivered this month.
Another one million doses will arrive in both April and May.
This means Canada will get 1.5-million extra COVID vaccine doses in March, another additional 1-million in April and another extra million in May. #cdnpoli
— Cormac Mac Sweeney (@cmaconthehill) March 5, 2021
Those doses were originally set to arrive in the summer.
The federal government had a contract to buy 40 million doses of the vaccine, which requires two shots for full effectiveness.
After the first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine arrived before the end of 2020, the national vaccination effort slowed sharply in January while Pfizer upgraded production lines at a major factory in Belgium.
