CBC
As Canada falls behind other countries on vaccinations, Trudeau promises to ‘scale up’ deliveries
With some provinces warning about a looming shortage of vaccines, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today the government is negotiating with manufacturers to move up deliveries to get more shots into the arms of Canadians sooner.Canada’s vaccination effort has been outpaced so far by those in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Denmark, Israel, Italy and the United Arab Emirates, among others.According to the latest data collated by the University of Oxford-based Our World in Data, Canada has also administered more shots per capita than G7 partners like Germany and France and middle-income countries like Argentina and Croatia.The federal government has delivered 548,950 doses of the two-dose Pfizer and Moderna products so far, with thousands more doses expected to arrive each…
