Majority of Canadians blame federal government for COVID-19 vaccine delays, poll suggests Christopher Reynolds Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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The vast majority of Canadians blame Ottawa rather than provincial governments for delays in COVID-19 vaccine delivery, a new poll suggests.
Sixty-nine per cent of respondents believe Canada is behind on deliveries due to federal challenges obtaining doses on the global market, according to an online survey by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies.
Smaller COVID-19 vaccine shipments expected this week as delivery confusion deflates Canadians’ confidence OTTAWA Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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Canada’s languid vaccination efforts have no chance of improvement this week with just 70,200 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine scheduled to start arriving.
Provinces and territories have already administered almost 90 per cent of the vaccines they have been sent. With this week’s new deliveries, there will be fewer than a quarter million doses of vaccine available to be injected this week.