The day began with Moderna announcing that a shipment of its COVID-19 vaccine to Canada scheduled for this month would be slashed to 650,000 doses from the originally scheduled 1.2 million. But later that morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a news conference that Pfizer had agreed to send an additional eight million doses of its vaccine to Canada by the end of June. The U.S. has administered more than 6.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and health experts have said that the risk of a blood clot from any vaccine is very rare. Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading...Canada is expecting to receive at least 10 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine. By the end of June, 4.1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine are expected to be in the country as well, said Anand.

Source: thestar April 16, 2021 14:18 UTC