Canada will receive 1.3 million doses of the Moderna vaccine in March: Anita Anand

Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Canada will receive 1.3 million doses of the Moderna vaccine in March, despite uncertainty over timing details.

The shipments would bring the total of Moderna doses to two million as planned, following smaller-than-expected deliveries this month.

Canada's vaccine rollout is ramping back up with more than 878,000 more Pfizer-BioNTech doses expected in the next two weeks after faltering shipments attributed to production delays abroad.

EarlierPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said, the head of Moderna has assured him the company will meet its contract to ship two-million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by the end of next month.

And the single largest shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines since the pandemic began is due to arrive from Europe this week.

Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to decline across the country despite an alarming flare-up of more contagious variants of the virus.