Category: Public Health Agency of Canada

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…


Two Scientists Fired From Top Canadian Laboratory After Shipping Viruses to Wuhan Institute of Virology

Two Chinese Canadian virology scientists have been fired by the Public Health Agency of Canada after they were evicted from the National Microbiology Laboratory under a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation that remains largely a mystery. “The two scientists are no longer employed by the Public Health Agency of Canada as of Jan. 20,…


Two Scientists Fired From Top Canadian Laboratory Amid Police Investigation

A prominent Chinese Canadian scientist and her husband have been fired by the Public Health Agency of Canada after they were evicted from the National Microbiology Laboratory under a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation that remains largely a mystery. “The two scientists are no longer employed by the Public Health Agency of Canada as…


‘Ramp Up’ of Vaccine Delivery in Canada Not Expected Until April, Fortin Says

OTTAWA—Canada should start getting two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines delivered weekly in April, meaning the “ramp up” phase of Canada’s vaccine rollout is still more than two months away. Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the vice−president of logistics for the Public Health Agency of Canada, says the specific delivery schedules for vaccines from both Pfizer-BioNTech and…