Winnipeg Free Press By: Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press Posted:
Last Modified: 8:43 PM CST Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021
OTTAWA - Procurement Minister Anita Anand said this week she is confident Canada s COVID-19 vaccine deliveries will only get better going forward but just hours after she made the remark, Canada s vaccine purchases got slammed again.
A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto on Thursday, January 7, 2021. Canada could get more than one million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of March through a global vaccine sharing initiative known as COVAX. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Canada had planned to vaccinate three million people by the end of March and another 10 million people between April and June.
AstraZeneca requires two doses per person, meaning the COVAX doses could increase Canada’s vaccination plan to 3.5 million people by the end of March and between 11 million and 11.6 million by the end of June.
The extra doses could get some of Canada’s most vulnerable people vaccinated faster, but for many of the world’s poorest countries, the COVAX doses starting to ship this winter will be the first COVID-19 vaccines they will see.
Canada has now vaccinated close to a million people with at least one dose of vaccines from either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna.