‘Ramp up’ of vaccine delivery in Canada not expected until April, Fortin says – paNOW

‘Ramp up’ of vaccine delivery in Canada not expected until April, Fortin says – paNOW

By Canadian Press

Jan 14, 2021 1:25 PM

OTTAWA — Canada should start getting two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines delivered weekly in April, meaning the “ramp up” phase of Canada’s vaccine rollout is still more than two months away.

Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the vice-president of logistics for the Public Health Agency of Canada, says the specific delivery schedules for vaccines from both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are now available until the end of February.

By the end of this week Fortin expects more than 929,000 doses to have arrived, with another 417,000 before the end of the month, and 1.9 million doses in February.

That will leave 2.7 million doses to be delivered in March to get to the six million doses the companies have promised to ship to Canada before the end of that month.

Published at Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:25:50 +0000