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Ontario leader blames Pfizer for COVID-19 vaccine delays
The leader of Canadaâs most populous province says he isnât buying the excuse from Pfizer about why Pfizer deferred all its COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to Canada next week
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press
January 22, 2021, 8:34 AM
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TORONTO The leader of Canadaâs most populous province said Thursday he isnât buying the explanation given by Pfizer about why the company has deferred next week s coronavirus vaccine deliveries to Canada.
Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Wednesday, January 20, 2021:
There have been 242,277 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 1,913 (or 0.8 per cent) from the previous day. A technical issue meant Toronto Public Health didn’t report all its case count. There are 209,183 people recovered from the virus while 5,479 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 9,000,278 of which 36,750 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 719,751. The country has 18,266 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, one in Nunavut, 1,090 in British Columbia, 1,463 in Alberta, 225 in Saskatchewan, 783 in Manitoba, 5,479 in Ontario, 9,142 in Quebec, 13 in New Brunswick, four in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.
But as Ottawa faces pressure to help poorer countries access COVID-19 vaccines, it is also being pulled internally by provinces demanding their citizens be vaccinated as quickly as possible.
The federal government says it will donate hundreds of millions of dollars to help developing countries vaccinate their citizens. But federal Procurement Minister Anita Anand has said Canada will do whatever it takes to get more vaccine delivered to the country sooner including, she said, by upping the price it is willing to pay.
David Hornsby, professor of international affairs at Carleton University, said the pandemic has shed light on an inward-looking trend that has been developing in the country for decades.