The Jan. 25 celebration of Scottish poet Robert Burns is limited this year due to COVID-19. Meanwhile, other countries have no doses in the pipeline, with some lower-income nations waiting for international aid that could take months. "That said, Dr. Bourla assured me that hundreds of thousands of Pfizer doses will be delivered the week of February 15 and in the weeks to follow." Beyond the Pfizer vaccine — which, to this point, had been delivered weekly — Canada is expecting shipments of the Moderna vaccine to continue uninterrupted. The latest figures, based on a survey of its members done between Jan. 12 and Jan. 16, come on top of 58,000 businesses that became inactive in 2020.

Source: CBC News January 22, 2021 21:06 UTC