Canada paid a premium to get more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine delivered last December, weeks earlier than planned. Canada reached a deal with Pfizer in July 2020 to buy at least 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine it was developing with German-based BioNTech. The specifics of what Canada paid for the 250 million doses of vaccine it pre-purchased have been hard to come by. Vaccine contract documents heavily redactedThe Pfizer contract was one of eight quietly shared with the health committee Friday. "After months of dogged work the opposition finally got Canada's vaccine contracts," he said on Twitter.

Source: CBC News June 12, 2021 17:15 UTC