Health Canada Approves Pfizer Vaccine

First set of the vaccine set to arrive in Canada next week

 

Health Canada has given the green light for use of Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine in the Country.

Just under 250,000 doses of the vaccine are expected to arrive this month, the first shipment arriving next week. The Federal government has purchased 20 million doses of the vaccine, with 4 million expected to arrive by March.

The Provincial government is working on a plan in hopes to administer the vaccine next week to the most vulnerable in their phase 1 plan.