Posted: Friday, April 16, 2021 15:54
The federal government has secured an additional eight million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday, hours after Moderna said its incoming delivery of 1.2 million more vaccine doses would be slashed in half.
Canada will receive four million more Pfizer doses in May, another two million in June and two million more in July, Trudeau said.
“I want to thank everyone at Pfizer for their cooperation and hard work, not just to keep deliveries on schedule, but to move more doses up and reach new agreements,” Trudeau said.
In all, Canada will be receiving eight million doses in May and almost 12 million in June from Pfizer alone, Trudeau said.
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