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Pfizer-BioNtech fast tracks COVID vaccine shipments, additional 1.5-million doses in March

Canada is getting an additional 1.5-million doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID vaccine this month. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also says an extra million Pfizer shots will be arriving in April. 

Trudeau announced the pharmaceutical giant is fast-tracking Canadian shipments to deliver about 3.5-million doses meant to for the summer in the next two months. 

That means 8-million vaccines in total are arriving in Canada in March, 2-million doses more than what the federal government was planning for.

Mo Fahim
Mo Fahim
Part of Vista Radio\'s National News Team and Moose\'s News Reporter in Parry Sound. Studied Radio Broadcasting at Algonquin College, and before that dabbled in Medical lab work for a bit.

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