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Canada expecting 1M Pfizer vaccine doses this week after Moderna delays shipment

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COVID-19 vaccines.The federal government says it expects about one million shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to arrive this week, as the two pharmaceutical firms continue delivering doses on a regular schedule.

Canada adds millions more Pfizer doses over spring, but Moderna cuts back Ottawa had planned to take delivery of about 1.2 million doses from Moderna as well, but that was before government officials revealed last week that the shipment would be both delayed and scaled back.The government has blamed a backlog in quality-assurance testing for the reduction, which will cut the number of doses Canada can expect this month in half and postpone their delivery by at least a week.Ottawa is not expecting any deliveries of the.

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