Try refreshing your browser, or Trudeau sticks to September timeline despite new COVID vaccine and new doses Back to video Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also announced a stepped up delivery timeline for the first vaccine Canada approved, Pfizer, which is boosting its timetable and will now deliver 1.5 million more doses in March, with an additional million more doses in both April and May. Canada was already expecting nearly 2.5 million doses from Pfizer this month. Article content The added doses, plus shipments from Moderna and the newly approved AstraZeneca vaccine means Canada expects eight million doses to arrive by the end of this month and cumulatively over 30 million doses will have arrived by the end of June. Canada has ordered 10 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson shot. Johnson & Johnson did a 40,000-person clinical trial with roughly half of participants getting the vaccine and others getting a placebo.

Source: National Post March 05, 2021 22:07 UTC