1.5M more Pfizer vaccine doses coming in March: Trudeau

Posted Mar 5, 2021 10:12 am.

Last Updated Mar 5, 2021 3:24 pm.

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OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will get an extra 1.5 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine delivered this month.

Another one million doses will arrive in both April and May.

Those doses were originally set to arrive in the summer.

The federal government had a contract to buy 40 million doses of the vaccine, which requires two shots for full effectiveness.

After the first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine arrived before the end of 2020, the national vaccination effort slowed sharply in January while Pfizer upgraded production lines at a major factory in Belgium.

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