Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the first COVID-19 vaccine doses are on track to arrive this month, as tough new measures took effect in Prince Edward Island and Ontario hit a new daily case record today. Trudeau says Ottawa has reached an agreement with Pfizer to have up to 249,000 doses delivered, pending Health Canada […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he hopes to see COVID-19 vaccines roll out in Canada early next year, but warns that won’t bring an immediate resolution to the pandemic currently seeing a resurgence in several provinces. The prime minister says news from Pfizer today that one of its vaccine candidates appears very effective in clinical […]
The government has reached deals with two major companies to make sure Canada gets access to COVID-19 vaccines being developed. The contracts are with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and American-based biotech firm Moderna, which both started Phase 3 clinical trials of their vaccine candidates last week. The government says the deals will let Canada procure millions […]
