Canada is about to start receiving more than two million doses a week of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as pharmaceutical corporations increase shipments and start sending vaccines from the United States.
Pfizer and BioNTech have delivered about one million doses from Brussels every week since mid-March, but those numbers will double over the next month before expanding further in June.
This week’s doses will also be the first to arrive from the Pfizer plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, after the US government has reached the top-notch. But it’s not the first time It will in the past limit exports of vaccines to vaccinate its own citizens.
However, there has been no immediate data on progress in the talks with the United States on the supply of more doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which is the most requested in the country.
Federal Minister of Supply and Utilities Anita Anand said Friday that Ottawa is “very aggressive with the provider. “
U. S. President Joe Biden warned last month that the United States can only a percentage of its arsenal of tens of millions of AstraZeneca vaccines, which fitness officials have approved.
Demand for the vaccine skyrocketed after several provinces reduced the age allowed for the vaccine to more than 40 years, and Anand said Canada would get four million total doses by the end of June, but the government does not have a detailed schedule of when they will arrive.
Pfizer-BioNTech doses are the injections expected to arrive in Canada over the next seven days, and Moderna is expected to deliver its next delivery of more than a million doses next week.
The federal government also said when it would distribute Johnson and Johnson’s single injection vaccine doses after the first 300,000 injections arrived in Canada last week.
Distribution plans are now suspended after Health Canada learned that some of them were manufactured at a Maryland facility that failed with the 15 million-dose production procedure in the United States.
The country’s Food and Drug Administration recently cited the facility for violations, adding cleaning and sterilization failures, cross-contamination and non-compliance with required protocols.
Health Canada already had 1. 5 million legal doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured at the facility, but not the Canadian doses of J
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The increase in more vaccines occurs when many parts of the country remain stagnant while a third wave of COVID-19 infections, exacerbated by many variants of the new coronavirus, is spreading throughout Canada.
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In this context, however, some long-standing virus hotspots are ready to drive their immunization efforts.
Quebec and Ontario are in a position to lower the age of eligibility for vaccination, and the latter province also plans to redirect some of its materials to designated neighborhoods with the highest infection rates over the next two weeks.
More than 173,000 new vaccines reported across saturday, bringing the total number of doses administered to 13,825,476.
Across the country, 1,128,778 people, or 3% of the population, were vaccinated.