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Canada will get no doses of vaccine from Pfizer at all next week: Major-General Dany Fortin
BY , Jan 20, 2021 1:02 AM - REPORT AN ERROR
A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Toronto on Thursday, January 7, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Anita Anand
Canadian leaders and health officials are promising that a slowdown in delivery of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine will only be temporary.
But Major-General Dany Fortin says Canada will get no doses of vaccine from Pfizer at all next week.
Fortin, the vice-president of operations at the Public Health Agency of Canada, says this week's shipment is almost one-fifth smaller than expected.
He says Pfizer is still expected to meet its contractual obligation to ship 4 million doses to Canada by the end of March.
Pfizer is upgrading its plant in Belgium, which is causing the delay.
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