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Canada’s federal procurement minister Anita Anand is urging pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to pick up the pace of COVID-19 vaccine deliveries and Ontario’s chief medical officer of health says the province is postponing second doses after the company announced a production delay.
Beginning the week of Jan. 25, Canada’s weekly delivery of Pfizer’s vaccine is being cut to 50,000 doses from the previous 200,000, the company said Friday. It will rebound to 100,000 the first two weeks of February, and is expected to be back at full pace by the end of February. Several other countries are also being hit by the delay. Pfizer is retooling a plant in Belgium to boost production.
“I understand and share the concerns of Canadians regarding the temporary delivery delay of Pfizer doses,” Anand tweeted Saturday. “We are once again in touch with representatives from Pfizer to reiterate firmly the importance for Canada to return to our regular delivery schedule as soon as possible.”
Anand told reporters Friday that Pfizer reiterated its commitment to deliver 4 million doses to Canada by the end of March.
The delay in vaccine delivery comes as Canada passes another grim milestone, with a total of more than 700,000 cases, according to calculations by The Canadian Press. Canada added 6,479 new cases Saturday, for a total of 702,186 diagnoses since the pandemic began, according to CP.
Also Saturday, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams said the province will delay giving second doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to some patients because of the delivery delay.
Staff and residents of long-term-care homes and high-risk retirement homes who have already received their first doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine will receive their second dose within 27 days, Williams said in a statement. Everyone else who has been given their first dose will now get their booster shot between 21 and 42 days later, he said.
Anyone receiving does of the vaccine produced by Moderna will still get their second shot at the existing schedule of 28 days, Williams said.
There are 1,632 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the province, including 397 patients in intensive care. There are 281 people on ventilators.
Locally, Health Minister Christine Elliott says 903 new cases are in Toronto, 639 in Peel, 283 in York Region, 162 in Durham and 152 in Ottawa.
Meanwhile, 27 more residents in long-term care have died for a total of 3,112 since the pandemic began, in the latest report released by the province.
Ontario is reporting three more LTC homes in outbreak, for a total of 246.
There are 90 more active positive cases among residents than the previous day for a total of 13,104.
Additionally, there are 65 more staff members with an active case, for a total of 5,134.
Since the pandemic began, 10 staff members in Ontario’s long-term care homes have died due to the virus, according to the province.
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This data is self-reported by the long-term care homes to the Ministry of Long-Term Care. Daily case and death figures may not immediately match the numbers posted by the local public health units due to lags in reporting time.
With files from Ed Tubb, Ann Marie Elpa and The Canadian Press
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