But within hours of the statement, potential deliveries from the global vaccine-sharing initiative known as the COVAX Facility diminished and Canada learned the production problems that cut this week s deliveries from Moderna by 20 per cent are now going to affect the next shipment as well.
Moderna was to deliver almost 250,000 doses to Canada the third week of February. It hasn t said yet what the impact will be.
A spokeswoman for Moderna told The Canadian Press the company remains on track to meet its contract to supply two million doses of its vaccine by the end of March.
They are but the latest headaches for Canada s vaccine efforts, coming after supply constraints cut Pfizer-BioNTech deliveries by more than two-thirds over four weeks, and European export controls that could put our entire supply of vaccines at risk.
The West Block – Episode 20, Season 10
Anita Anand, Public Services and Procurement Minister
Michelle Rempel-Garner, Conservative Calgary Nose Hill
Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Author and Former Liberal MP
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Anita Anand, Minister of Public Services and Procurement
: “We are in a time of global turbulence, where production lines are being ramped up. And as that occurs, we can expect some turbulence or shifting in the delivery schedules.”
Michelle Rempel-Garner, Conservative Calgary Nose Hill
: “They took some of these manufacturers word for it. They didn’t really plan for contingencies.”
Mercedes Stephenson: Sexual misconduct allegations against Canada’s former top soldier, General Jonathan Vance.
Justin Trudeau has too many vaccines and not enough â the question is how we got here
Justin Trudeauâs government now finds itself accused of procuring both too few doses of a COVID-19 vaccine and too many. On Friday, the prime minister tried to focus the attention of Canadians on the idea that within the next seven months Canada will at least have enough doses.
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