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May 28, 2021 9:41 PM -
Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Canada has confirmed shipments of 15 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines from three suppliers.
She says every eligible Canadian will have access to a second dose by the end of the summer.
She says 2.4 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech will arrive each week over five weeks in June and nine million more will arrive in July.
As announced yesterday, she says Moderna has provided an updated delivery schedule for the first part of June, with 500,000 doses in two shipments starting next week.
She also says 1.5 million doses of Moderna are arriving the week of June 14.
As for AstraZeneca, she says two million supplementary doses will arrive in Canada by the end of June.
