The federal government expects to receive 84 million vaccine doses from European manufacturers by the end of September. I don’t think that would have been possible,” Lievonen said, echoing what his task force colleague Alan Bernstein told the Star last month. The Liberals, meanwhile, have blamed former Conservative governments for the decline in domestic vaccine production capacity. Pre-pandemic, when it came to vaccine production, the Liberal government’s main effort to boost Canadian vaccine production was giving $3.6 million in 2018 to establish the University of Saskatchewan’s VIDO-Intervac manufacturing facility for animal vaccines. Once up and running at the end of 2021, it is expected to be able to produce up to 40 million doses annually.

Source: thestar February 18, 2021 22:07 UTC