Canada vaccination
Canada would complete Covid-19 vaccination for all by Sept 2021, says CPHA
Canada/IBNS: The Public Health Agency of Canada (CPHA) has said that there should be enough COVID-19 doses for vaccinating every Canadian who wants to be inoculated by the end of Sep 2021.
"Based on current data, by the end of Q3 2021, Canada projects having a sufficient number [of] doses to be able to offer a vaccination to every Canadian," a spokesperson for PHAC said in a statement to CBC News. The "Q3" refers to the third quarter of the calendar year July, Aug, and Sept.
The statement is in response to confusion over information released to reporters about vaccination timelines. During its briefing on Dec 15, some federal documents suggested that the inoculation campaign would be completed by the "end of 2021," while other material pointed to the September date.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Dec 15 that 168,000 doses of the Moderna shot are expected to be available in Canada by the end of this month, subject to Health Canada approval.
Purchase agreements for up to 418 million doses of the various shots with seven different pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer, Moderna, Medicago, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, and Sanofi-GlaxoSmithKline have been signed by the government of Canada.
Meanwhile, the United States of America (US) says it hopes to have its inoculation program completed by June of 2021.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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