Every vaccine maker was asked to make their doses in Canada and all said no: Anand
by Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press
Posted Feb 4, 2021 12:06 pm EDT
Last Updated Feb 4, 2021 at 12:14 pm EDT
OTTAWA Procurement Minister Anita Anand says every COVID-19 vaccine maker Canada signed a contract with last summer was asked if they could make the doses in Canada and all of them concluded they could not.
Anand is appearing before a House of Commons committee studying Canada’s domestic production capacity for COVID-19 vaccines today.
She says all the manufacturers studied what was possible in Canada for production and the existing biomanufacturing facilities were not suitable.
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