Canada will distribute extra COVID-19 vaccine doses, Trudeau promises

ABS-CBN News Posted at Dec 19 2020 07:05 PM Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with staff at a hospital in Ottawa, Canada, on Tuesday after the first Civic Hospital vaccination session. Blair Gable, Reuters Canada is ready to distribute excess doses of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine for other countries once their residents are vaccinated, according to their Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canada's vaccination campaign is in full swing this week. They aim to ensure that all of their 38 million residents are vaccinated. "As Canada gets vaccinated, if we have more vaccines than necessary, we will absolutely be sharing with the world," Trudeau said in a CTV interview that will be aired on Sunday. On Friday, Trudeau said they will get 125,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine per week, equivalent to 500,000 doses per month by January. Canada is also expected to receive 200,000 doses of Pfizer / BioNTech vacccine next week, and 168,000 doses of Moderna vaccine before the end of the year, after obtaining regulatory approval from Health Canada. On Monday, Canada's vaccination campaign kicked off emergency home workers and residences in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Canada wants to vaccinate about 3 million people after the first three months of 2021. The World Health Organization and the Gavi vaccine alliance have laid down the COVAX mechanism to ensure that the vaccine reaches the developing countries. According to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, up to 2 billion doses of various vaccine candidates have been obtained so far. Last September, Canada raised up to Can $ 220 million in the COVAX initiative. So far, Canada has 490,000 COVID-19 cases. And 14,000 died of the disease. - Translated from the Agence France-Presse report

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