Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is now expecting to ship only half of its COVID-19 vaccines it originally planned for by the end of this year because of supply-chain problems.
A company spokesperson tells the Wall Street Journal that the scaling up of the raw material supply chain took longer than expected.
Pfizer and it’s German-based partner hoped to roll out 100 million vaccines world-wide by December 31; that plan has now been reduced to 50 million.
The company still expects to ship more than a billion doses in 2021.
In mid-November, Ontario’s Health Minister Christine Elliott said that Canada is expected to receive millions of doses in the coming months.
The country is expected to receive four million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine and two million doses of Moderna’s between January and March.
Subsequently, Elliott said that Ontario will get roughly 1.6 million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine and around 800,000 of Moderna’s for proper distribution.
On Wednesday, Pfizer and BioNTech won permission for emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine in Britain. The move allowed Britain to become one of the first countries to begin vaccinating its population.
In a series of tweets, Canada’s Health Minister, Patty Hajdu, described the United Kingdom’s decision to authorize the Pfizer’s vaccine as “encouraging.”
The federal government has been facing criticism on vaccines since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted last week that other countries with domestic vaccine production are likely to inoculate their citizens first before shipping doses to Canada.
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2020-12-03 21:19:27Z
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