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Federal government has reached a deal with Pfizer to buy an extra 20 million doses of the vaccine : PM Trudeau
BY , Jan 12, 2021 6:46 PM - REPORT AN ERROR
A registered pharmacist technician carefully fills the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine at a vaccine clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on December 15, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
PM Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government has reached a deal with Pfizer to buy an extra 20 million doses of the vaccine it produced with its German partner BioNTech.
He says that means Canada will receive 80 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines this year.
He also says that between now and sometime between April and June, Canada will have enough doses to vaccinate up to 20 million people against the deadly coronavirus.
Trudeau is also announcing the Canada-U. S. land border will remain closed to non-essential travel until at least Feb. 21.
It's another 30-day extension to the restrictions in place since mid-March.
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