Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in a COVID-19 briefing on December 15, 2020. (CPAC screenshot)
It is another step forward in securing a new supply of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the government has reached an agreement with biotech giant Moderna.
“Canada is now contracted to receive up to 168,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine before the end of December,” explained the prime minister.
He added, “These doses are part of the guaranteed 40 million doses we have secured from Moderna.”
As with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Health Canada approval is necessary before the new vaccine can be distributed.
Forty-eight hours after that approval the prime minister says the vaccine can be distributed.
