"Canada secures 1.4M more Moderna doses for June, bringing month’s vaccine total to over 20M
...That brings Canada’s total Moderna vaccine doses to over nine million for the month of June alone, and sets the vaccine manufacturer on track to “exceed the original target for the second quarter” with a new total of 12.9 million doses.
Canada was already set to receive 9.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this week alone, thanks to a massive infusion of shots from Moderna.
.... The shipments expected over the next seven days will more than double the number of shots Moderna has sent Canada’s way. The company had only delivered 6.2 million by the end of last week, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
The federal government has received more than 22.5 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses and nearly 2.9 million Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs, with another one million of the latter scheduled for delivery later this month.
Around 330,000 doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine were also delivered, but Health Canada has decided not to distribute them over concerns they may have been tainted.
The government also says it will not accept anymore Johnson & Johnson doses until an inspection of a Baltimore production facility that produced the previous batch.
While Canada is poised to receive millions of vaccine doses this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced at the conclusion of the G7 summit in Britain on Sunday that Canada would be donating 13 million surplus jabs to poorer countries struggling to vaccinate their populations.
Trudeau said the donations would not affect Canada’s own immunization efforts.
.... Canada has secured delivery of more than 100 million doses for the year — more than what’s needed to give its population of nearly 38 million two doses per person.
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...That brings Canada’s total Moderna vaccine doses to over nine million for the month of June alone, and sets the vaccine manufacturer on track to “exceed the original target for the second quarter” with a new total of 12.9 million doses.
Canada was already set to receive 9.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this week alone, thanks to a massive infusion of shots from Moderna.
.... The shipments expected over the next seven days will more than double the number of shots Moderna has sent Canada’s way. The company had only delivered 6.2 million by the end of last week, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
The federal government has received more than 22.5 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses and nearly 2.9 million Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs, with another one million of the latter scheduled for delivery later this month.
Around 330,000 doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine were also delivered, but Health Canada has decided not to distribute them over concerns they may have been tainted.
The government also says it will not accept anymore Johnson & Johnson doses until an inspection of a Baltimore production facility that produced the previous batch.
While Canada is poised to receive millions of vaccine doses this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced at the conclusion of the G7 summit in Britain on Sunday that Canada would be donating 13 million surplus jabs to poorer countries struggling to vaccinate their populations.
Trudeau said the donations would not affect Canada’s own immunization efforts.
.... Canada has secured delivery of more than 100 million doses for the year — more than what’s needed to give its population of nearly 38 million two doses per person.
Canada secures 1.4M more Moderna doses for June, bringing month’s vaccine total to over 20M - National | Globalnews.ca
Canada is poised to receive around 9.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this week thanks to a massive infusion of shots from Moderna.
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