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Canada to receive 5M doses of vaccine this week

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 26 Jul, 2021 09:58 AM

The federal government expects to receive enough doses of COVID-19 vaccine this week to fully inoculate all eligible Canadians.

Ottawa is anticipating shipments of roughly five million doses of COVID-19 vaccine this week.

That will bring the total number of doses received up to 68 million — enough to administer two doses to all 33.2 million Canadians aged 12 and over.

Today’s #vaccineupdate:

🚨 🇨🇦 has received over 60 million doses
🚨 46 million doses have been administered
🚨80% of eligible Cdns have had at least one dose
🚨58% are fully vaxxed
🚨🇨🇦 is 1st in G20 for share of population with one dose

Let’s keep going! @thisisourshotca https://t.co/Hgyxs5QC6C
— Anita Anand (@AnitaOakville) July 21, 2021

Those under the age of 12 will have to wait for trials on younger children to be completed before getting their jabs.

As of Friday, 57.45 per cent of Canadians 12 and older had been fully vaccinated, and 79.66 per cent had received at least one dose.

This week's deliveries will include 3.6 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and 1.4 million doses of Moderna's product.

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