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Vaccine 'ramp up' phase to start in April: Fortin

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 14 Jan, 2021 07:28 PM
  • Vaccine 'ramp up' phase to start in April: Fortin

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.

But Fortin says the expectation is that starting in April both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna will ship close to one million doses each to Canada every week, allowing provinces to significantly expand their vaccine programs.

Fortin says efforts are already underway to make sure the supplies and storage needs are identified so everything is in place when the bigger shipments start arriving.

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