National

AstraZeneca doses expected by end of June: Trudeau

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 05 Feb, 2021 06:33 PM

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is supposed to get its entire order of COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca before the end of June.

Health Canada is expected to approve the AstraZeneca vaccine for use next week.

Officials would not say Thursday when the first of those doses were to arrive but Trudeau says he believes most of the 20 million doses Canada pre-ordered from the company will be delivered before Canada Day.

Those doses bring the number of Canadians who could be vaccinated in the spring to 20 million — double the number with existing vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

Canada had previously said three million people could be vaccinated by the end of March and another 10 million by the end of June.

Public faith in the federal vaccine effort is plummeting as Trudeau's refrain about Canada getting vaccines as quickly as possible runs into production issues that slashed vaccine deliveries and slowed injections to a crawl.

Prev Next

MORE National ARTICLES

Vancouver Police asking for witnesses to come forward in a Halloween stabbing

He was struck in the head by a white male in his 20s, who was wearing a Ghostbusters Halloween costume. A second altercation between the groups occurred around 11:45 p.m. near the public washrooms at the soccer field.

Vancouver Police asking for witnesses to come forward in a Halloween stabbing

Military seeing more hateful conduct: Minister

Sajjan has previously spoken about his experiences with racism while serving as a reservist, but he believes the number of hate-motivated incidents have increased since he wore a uniform.

Military seeing more hateful conduct: Minister

RCMP start criminal probe in B.C. train derailment

Sgt. Janelle Shoihet says the probe comes after a preliminary review of the incident near Field, B.C., that killed three rail company employees

RCMP start criminal probe in B.C. train derailment

B.C. budget deficit forecast to hit $13.6 billion

In February, the government projected a budget surplus of $227 million for 2020-21 but that was before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

B.C. budget deficit forecast to hit $13.6 billion

Groups warn of CERB clawbacks on vulnerable youth

They are now among the 441,000 people who have received letters from the Canada Revenue Agency questioning their eligibility for the CERB, and warning they may owe back some of the payments.

Groups warn of CERB clawbacks on vulnerable youth

Surrey RCMP recover stolen bank and ID cards

Shortly after 8 a.m. on December 8, 2020, Surrey RCMP responded to the theft of a vehicle from a residence in the 17200-block of 57 Avenue. The stolen vehicle had the owner’s credit card inside which was fraudulently used soon after it was stolen, at a business near 168 Street and 60 Avenue.