Canada will be getting more Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses than expected in the spring and summer months.
After recent shortages, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau now says delays have been cleared up and the country will receive almost 11-million doses between April and June.
“We’ve been continuing to work every single day to get as many doses as possible, as quickly as possible, into Canadians’ arms,” he says.
He adds Canada has also bought more Moderna doses, for a total of 44-million shots from that company.
Trudeau maintains that the country will get all the doses it’s bought by September, for a total of 84-million shots.
The country is also investing $53-million to detect, track and treat COVID-19 variants.
“The new variants that are more communicable, more easily transmitted, are increasingly out there, so we need to stay careful,” Trudeau says.
The money will be used to scale up the country’s surveillance and research into the variants, with the creation of a new task force.
