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In the race between highly contagious COVID variants and B.C’s vaccination program, the province’s biggest hurdle has been the unpredictability of the vaccine supply from the federal government.
B.C. surpassed one million vaccine shots injected on Friday as it marked another grim daily COVID-19 case count with 1,262 new infections.
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There’s about a one-week turnaround between when vaccine shipments are received by the province and when they’re delivered to health authorities and vaccination clinics, Health Minister Adrian Dix said Thursday. In recent weeks, the province was left with less than a day’s supply of the Pfizer vaccine, Dix said, which meant health officials had to get new shipments out to clinics within one or two days to ensure people booked for appointments got
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