1.5M more Pfizer vaccine doses coming in March, Trudeau says
Posted March 5, 2021 12:13 pm.
Last Updated March 5, 2021 1:13 pm.
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.
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.
