A month-long slowdown in Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine deliveries should end next week, with the single biggest shipment of vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech to date.
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the military commander overseeing Canada’s vaccine distribution, says Pfizer has confirmed it will ship 400,000 doses to Canada starting Monday.
Over the next four weeks, Canada should get almost 1.8 million doses from Pfizer, and another 168,000 from Moderna.
But Moderna’s next shipment on Feb. 22 is only two-thirds of what it was supposed to be.
The company is struggling to ramp up production with its Swiss manufacturing partner Lonza.
A spokeswoman for Pfizer Canada says the upgrades to the company’s plant in Belgium are complete and production is back on track to meet Canada’s order for four million doses by the end of March.
