Category: Canada COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Federal Government Expecting 1M Vaccine Doses This Week After Moderna Delays Delivery

OTTAWA—Canada will have to wait a little longer for a promised influx of COVID-19 vaccines. The federal government says it expects about 1 million shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to arrive this week, as the two pharmaceutical firms continue delivering doses on a regular schedule. Ottawa had planned to take delivery of about 1.2 million…


Canada to Get 1 Million Vaccine Doses This Week With Only Pfizer Delivery Scheduled

OTTAWA—The recent flood of COVID-19 vaccine doses into Canada is expected to wane this week, with a little more than 1 million shots scheduled for delivery over the next seven days. Canada has fielded vaccine deliveries from various pharmaceutical firms in recent weeks amid dramatic spikes in COVID-19 case counts across the country. Yet the…


Coming Week Will See Trickle of COVID 19 Vaccine Doses Before Ramping Up

OTTAWA—The Public Health Agency of Canada is expecting a smaller-than-normal shipment of COVID-19 vaccines this week, with fewer than 445,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech shots scheduled for delivery over the next seven days. Yet that seeming trickle is set to explode into a full-blown flood starting the week of March 22 as the companies dramatically ramp…


No Sign Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine Causes Blood Clots: Canadian Health Authorities

OTTAWA—Canadian health authorities are keeping a watchful eye on European investigations of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after reports of blood clots following inoculations, but say there is no evidence they were caused by the vaccine. At least nine European countries hit pause on their use of AstraZeneca’s doses—some entirely, and others only on specific batches—pending further…


Canada Set to Receive More Than 910,000 Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines This Week

OTTAWA—Canada is set to receive 910,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses this week as pharmaceutical companies ramp up deliveries to make good on their contractual obligations by the end of the month. The Public Health Agency of Canada says the country will receive nearly 445,000 shots from Pfizer-BioNTech for the second week running as the companies settle…


Health Canada ‘Days Away’ From Decision on Johnson & Johnson Vaccine

OTTAWA—Health Canada is just “days away” from deciding whether to approve Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. If that happens it will add a fourth option to Canada’s efforts to immunize our way to an end to the pandemic and the first to require only one dose. Coupled with a new recommendation Thursday that provinces delay…


First Shipment of AstraZeneca Vaccine Arrives Amid Confusion Over Its Use for Seniors

OTTAWA—The first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are set to arrive in Canada today as confusion persists over who should get it. Canada is to receive 500,000 doses of the vaccine, the third approved for use in Canada, from the Serum Institute of India. But questions about who should receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine continue…


Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine for COVID-19 Needs Better Promotion: Experts

VANCOUVER—Essential workers who are more likely to contract and transmit COVID-19 should be prioritized for immunization with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine now that a national panel is not recommending it for seniors, two experts say. Caroline Colijn, a COVID-19 modeller and mathematician at Simon Fraser University, and Horacio Bach, an adjunct professor in the division of…


COVID-19 Vaccination Ramps up in Several Provinces as Supply Worries Ease

Several provinces began expanding their COVID-19 vaccination programs to members of the general population on Monday amid the prospect of more regular deliveries and the imminent arrival of a third approved vaccine. Ontario, Quebec and B.C. started or announced plans to start vaccinating older seniors living in the community, after a first phase that focused…


Feds Hoping for AstraZeneca Shots This Week as Pfizer BioNTech Prepare Next Delivery

OTTAWA—The federal government hopes to start receiving doses of AstraZeneca’s recently approved COVID-19 vaccine this week as the flood of shots that flowed into Canada from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna last week partially subsides. Health Canada announced on Friday that it had approved the AstraZeneca vaccine, the third COVID-19 shot to have received regulatory approval since…