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A look at news events in January 2021: 1 - The U.S. reached 20 million COVID-19 cases on the first day of the new year. Johns Hopkins University said the U.S. exceeded the mark less than a week after the country reached 19 million cases.
As Omicron spreads across Canada and the world, Canadian vaccine equity advocates say the federal government needs to be more transparent with what it does with excess COVID-19 vaccine doses.
In today's Morning Brief, we look at Canada's vaccine reserve, which is running above the 4 million dose level the federal government pledged back in August.
"Going forward, our government will maintain a reserve of vaccines of approximately four million doses that will be managed by Minister [Patty] Hajdu and the [Public Health Agency of Canada], in co-ordination with the provinces and territories," she said.
As provinces ramp up vaccinations amid the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the federal government won’t say when the doses required to provide every fully-vaccinated Canadian a booster shot will be delivered.