Medicago has said it has the manufacturing capacity to produce as many as 100 million doses in 2021. Canada already has signed contracts for tens of millions more vaccine doses with other pharmaceutical giants, such as AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer. All told, the federal government has secured 358 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine — an insurance policy if some of the vaccines in development prove to be ineffective in clinical trials. No COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use in the Western world. Public opinion polls found the ban is popular in Canada as COVID-19 cases have skyrocketed in the United States.

Source: CBC News October 23, 2020 21:06 UTC