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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Amanda Parsons, a registered nurse on staff at the Northwood Care facility, prepares a dose of the Moderna vaccine in Halifax on January 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan March 17, 2021 - 2:43 PM
TORONTO - By most accounts, Canadian kids are not expected to receive a COVID-19 vaccine this year, let alone before the new school year in September.
But a select few may be able to receive an early dose through clinical trials expected to launch in various locales.
Moderna said this week it wants to recruit an unspecified number of Canadian children aged six months to 12 years for upcoming trials of its COVID-19 vaccine, while Johnson & Johnson is poised to run trials for its vaccine with 12- to 17-year-olds.
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Thilina Bandara has received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Government of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation. He is a board member for the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health and the Saskatchewan Public Health Association.
Cory Neudorf receives funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation. He is affiliated with the Urban Public Health Network, and serves on advisory boards and committees with the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Canadian Public Health Association.
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GraceLife Church pastor remains in custody after holding another service violating COVID-19 public health orders GraceLife Church in Parkland County defied Alberta government public gathering restrictions on the weekend and held a church service. Photo by Larry Wong /Postmedia
The pastor of a Parkland County church previously charged with violating Public Health Act orders remains in custody after turning himself in to police Tuesday, RCMP say.
On Sunday, RCMP and Alberta Health Services attended the GraceLife Church to “assess compliance in relation to conditions issued to the pastor on Feb. 7,” police said in a news release.
Pastor James Coates had previously been charged under the Public Health Act for being over capacity and failing to adhere to physical distancing requirements during church service. He was served an undertaking with conditions.