Canada Accelerates COVID-19 Vaccine Deliveries

The Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Public Services and Procurement announced on February 12, 2021, that Canada has negotiated an accelerated delivery schedule for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty) and will receive all 40 million of its secured doses from Pfizer-BioNTech by the end of September.

This means that Canada will receive 2.8 million additional doses of the Comiranty vaccine between April and June 2021 and an extra 6.2 million doses between July and September 2021.

The Government of Canada has also purchased an additional 4 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. The extra 4 million doses are expected to arrive by the end of September.

Canada is now expected to receive 84-million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines by the end of September 2021.

“Our government continues to put every effort forward to protect Canadians from COVID-19. This includes taking all necessary measures to accelerate vaccine deliveries to Canada from approved suppliers. We remain fully on track to ensure that every eligible Canadian who wishes to be vaccinated will be able to do so by the end of September," stated Anand in a press release.