The United States will deliver 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine to Canada next week, Anita Anand, Canadian Minister of Public Services and Supply, announced Friday, March 26.
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The United States has tens of millions of doses of this vaccine which has not, at this stage, received the green light from the American health authorities.
Conversely, Canada authorized this vaccine at the end of February, one of four approved by Ottawa with those of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
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I can confirm that the 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca from the United States will arrive in Canada next Tuesday by truck,
" Anita Anand said at a press conference.
The White House announced last week that it was considering sending millions of doses of this vaccine to Mexico and Canada.
400 million doses ordered
Canada has ordered 20 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine, but no delivery date has yet been set, according to the Canadian Department of Health.
In total, Canada has ordered or reserved more than 400 million doses of various vaccines.
The country must receive by April 18 6 million doses, the equivalent of "the
total number of doses received in the past 3 months,
" said Anita Anand.
To date, 11% of the 38 million Canadians have received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to Anita Anand.
Ottawa has also ordered two million doses of the AstraZeneca version of the vaccine produced in India by the Serum Institute, of which several hundred thousand have already been delivered.
Canada must also receive 1.9 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine by the end of June through the UN Covax device, which aims in particular to help poor countries to vaccinate their populations against Covid, the Prime Minister had previously indicated. Justin Trudeau.
