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Feb 23, 2021 9:32 PM -
This week Canada is receiving its biggest combined shipment yet of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna.
Procurement Minister Anita Anand says most of the 643,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses arriving in the country this week have already been delivered.Anita Anand gave an update this afternoon.
Anand says vaccine deliveries are starting to ramp up significantly, with 3.5 million doses expected to arrive in March.
Dr. Tam is hopeful, relaxations will come soon in most invasive public health measures
Canada's chief public health officer Doctor Theresa Tam says she is hopeful provinces and territories will be able to start relaxing the most invasive public health measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 before September.
Dr. Tam told an Ottawa news conference it all depends on vaccine rollout and how COVID-19 variants are able to infiltrate the country.
Neither Tam nor Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc will put a specific date on the move to lift restrictions.
But LeBlanc says the government has noted that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson would like all restrictions lifted in the UK by June 21st.
