It is another step forward in securing a new supply of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the government has reached an agreement with biotech giant Moderna.
“Canada is now contracted to receive up to 168,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine before the end of December,” explains the Prime Minister. “These doses are part of the guaranteed 40 million doses we have secured from Moderna.”
As with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Health Canada approval is necessary before the new vaccine can be distributed.
Forty-eight hours after that approval, the Prime Minister says the vaccine can be distributed.
There’s no word yet when that approval will be coming.
