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BC had barely launched its mass vaccination plan last month when one thing became crystal clear: We didn’t have enough vaccines to meet our schedule. Today, we still don’t.
The province’s ambitious timeline to get you a shot starting now with seniors and vulnerable communities and then proceeding by age until October were thrown off by Canada failing in recent weeks to receive the amount of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines it had been expecting.
The delays have piled up, pushing provinces like BC further and further behind.
“We’ve had very limited vaccine supply but thankfully starting next week deliveries of our Pfizer BioNTech vaccine will start to resume at much higher levels,” Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Friday.
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Everything you need to know about COVID-19 in Alberta on Sunday, Feb. 14
A Calgary lab has partnered with a pharmacy chain that has a strong presence in rural southern Alberta to offer fee-based asymptomatic COVID-19 tests. Meanwhile, the province announced it will suspend its border pilot at the Calgary airport when new federal testing requirements come into effect.
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Posted: Feb 14, 2021 9:30 AM MT | Last Updated: February 14
A man wears a mask in downtown Calgary on Oct. 30 amid a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.(Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)
A Calgary lab has partnered with a pharmacy chain that has a strong presence in rural southern Alberta to offer fee-based asymptomatic COVID-19 tests. Meanwhile, the province announced it will suspend its border pilot at the Calgary airport when new federal testing requirements come into effect.