Volume 17 • No. 4 • February 16-28, 2021
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Enough vaccine for all Canadians by end of September Canada expects to receive 84 million doses of the PfizerBioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines by the end of September 2021 – enough to fully vaccinate every single Canadian. The government negotiated faster deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine to receive 2.8 million more doses than originally scheduled between April and June, and 6.2 million more doses between July and September. All 40 million of its secured doses are expected by the end of September. Canada also bought another four million doses of the Moderna vaccine on top of the 40 million already on order, which are also expected to arrive by the end See VACCINE p4
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking at COVID-19 briefing
Travel restrictions expanded With new COVID-19 variant detections increasing in Canada, the federal government announced on February 12 further testing and quarantine requirements for international travellers arriving at Canada’s air and land ports of entry. The new measures are intended to help prevent variants of the virus from reaccelerating the pandemic and making it more difficult to contain. See TRAVEL p4