OTTAWA – Canada’s Covid-19 vaccines rollout will be back on track in March with stepped up deliveries of doses to make up for recent delays, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday.
Outstanding deliveries of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines plus the purchase of additional doses from Moderna — the only two approved for use in Canada, so far — will bring the nation’s total supply to 84 million doses by the end of September, he said.
That is more than enough to inoculate all of Canada’s 38 million people using the two-dose vaccines.
“We’ve been continuing to work every single day on getting as many doses as possible as quickly as possible into Canadians’ arms,” Trudeau to…
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