First COVID-19 vaccines in Canada this month

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said up to 249,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will arrive on Canadian soil by the end of the month, with the first doses delivered next week.

Health Canada is set to approve the vaccine from American-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for use in Canada within days.

Canada is set to receive four million doses of the Pfizer vaccine by March, beginning this month, which is enough to inoculate two million people with two doses each.

The federal government has purchased 20 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and has the option to buy 56 million more.