Country's top experts have upheld the highest standards in Health Canada's approval of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine: PM Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he knows the country's top experts have upheld the highest standards in Health Canada's approval of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.

The Moderna shot is the second to be greenlit in Canada, following the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 9th.

Trudeau says deliveries from Moderna should arrive in the coming days.

He says between the earlier doses of the Pfizer vaccine and the upcoming shipments, Canada is on track to have at least 1.2 million doses of the two shots by the end of January.

Health Canada says the COVID-19 vaccine from U.S. biotech firm Moderna is safe for use in Canada.

Canada is to get 40 million doses of Moderna's vaccine in 2021, enough to vaccinate 20 million people, or about two-thirds of the Canadian adult population.