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By iPolitics. Published on Feb 15, 2021 11:57am
A COVID-19 vaccination (Rick Madonik/Toronto Star)
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Pfizer ramp-up expected this week: The Public Health Agency of Canada expects more than 335,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be delivered this week. (Pfizer says it could be closer to 400,000, if medical professionals extract six, rather than five, doses per vial.) The shipment will be the single largest delivery to Canada since the start of the pandemic, as Pfizer scales up production after a month-long slowdown.
Meanwhile, India’s Serum Institute has confirmed it will begin shipping vaccines to Canada within a month.
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Expectations for the pandemic budget: Liberal insiders and former public servants say the spring budget will be buttoned down — and driven by COVID. “We’re just trying to keep the economy functioning in some form so that we can rebound quicker when we come out the other end of this thing,” former Liberal MP Joe Jordan told