“With the change in product monograph, we expect to receive and distribute approximately 400,000 doses next week and 475,000 doses in the last week of February,” said Major General Dany Fortin.
Health officials complained saying it was not always possible to extract an extra dose without using a specialized syringe known as a low-dead volume syringe.
Fortin says there are enough low-dead volume syringes to meet the federal need for vaccines for the next several weeks and says more will arrive in May.
The government says the new six-dose vial will go into effect immediately.
“While there is a change in doses contained in each vial, the country’s overall allotment from the manufacturer will remain the same,” said Fortin.