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Canada, which has a population of 38 million, has agreed to buy up to 76 million doses from Pfizer, and 414 million doses of other potential vaccines from other companies in a rollout that will take months. Similarly, Britain has arranged for far more doses than it will need, in case some vaccines are delayed or do not pan out.
The initial quantities will be small compared with the millions of doses expected to arrive in the new year, making the first doses more an appetizer than a main course.
The broad plan is to vaccinate only people from the top-priority groups until the end of March. During that time, the federal government expects to receive four million doses from Pfizer and, assuming it’s approved, two million doses of Moderna’s vaccine.
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1st doses of Pfizer-BioNTech s COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Canada Ryan Patrick Jones
Canada s first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech s COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Quebec on Sunday night, with more to follow on Monday. This is good news, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Twitter. But our fight against COVID-19 is not over. Now more than ever, let s keep up our vigilance.
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, who is in charge of logistics at the Public Health Agency of Canada s national operations centre, told CBC s Chief Political Correspondent Rosemary Barton earlier on Sunday that he is confident provinces are prepared to receive and administer the first batch of approximately 30,000 doses.