The provincial government is looking into how best to work the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot into its vaccination plan.Health Canada approved the third vaccine on Feb.
26 and Saskatchewan’s health minister anticipates it could help immunize people in remote parts of the province.“If AstraZeneca comes on, we would certainly dovetail that into our Moderna vaccines for the north,” Paul Merriman told Global News.
Canada approves AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine Unlike the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, AstraZeneca doesn’t need to be shipped and stored in extremely cold temperatures.While Pfizer requires -70 C and Moderna is chilled at -20 C, AstraZeneca can be held in an average refrigerator.