OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce Friday that Canada will be receiving more Pfizer vaccine doses, earlier than expected. This comes as the federal government has announced there will be more Moderna delivery issues ahead, with the next planned shipment being smaller than promised.
In a statement, Procurement Minister Anita Anand confirmed that late Thursday Moderna informed Canada that the next expected vaccine shipment scheduled for the end of April will be 650,000 doses instead of the more than 1.2 million expected.
Further, Moderna is now saying that up to two million of the total 12.3 million doses promised to come to Canada this quarter “may” be delayed until the third quarter due to a “slower than anticipated ramp up of their production capacity” that is affecting a number of countries.
The government had already signalled that while the delivery was supposed to arrive the week of April 19-25, it could be later, meaning it may be early May before the deliveries make it out to the provinces and territories.
Canada’s ramp-up phase of the national mass vaccination effort has been plagued by Moderna delays for weeks, while uncertainty is lingering over deliveries of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses.
It’s inconsistencies like this in the delivery plan that has frustrated premiers and seen Canada’s logistics lead Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin pledging to work closely on risk managing the situation.
“We are disappointed, and while we understand the challenges facing suppliers in the current global market for vaccines, our government will continue to press Moderna to fulfill its commitments,” Anand said in the statement.
While Moderna met its first quarter dose commitments and moved its shipment intervals up from every three weeks, a “quality assurance processes backlog” has meant the latest shipments to Canada have been inconsistent. The last Moderna shipment to arrive on time and in full was on March 11.
“We share the urgency of getting vaccines to Canadians as rapidly as possible. That is our work, each and every day, for all approved vaccines,” said Anand.
She will be joining Trudeau at an 11:45 a.m. ET announcement in Ottawa, where the prime minister is set to offer more details on just how many more Pfizer shots will be coming to Canada, and when.
After shortages in the winter due to an expansion at Pfizer’s European manufacturing facility, Canada has consistently been receiving the promised shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, with more than one million doses a week through to the end of May already scheduled. Starting in June, Pfizer has committed to sending closer to two million doses a week, amounting in a cumulative total of 17.8 million Pfizer doses by the end of June.
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2021-04-16 14:44:00Z
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