'We are hard at it': Canada plans to start COVID-19 vaccine delivery by January

Canian government is targeting January as starting point for distribution COVID-19 vaccine throughout country, vaccine distribution Czar Major General Dany Fortin revealed during a press conference. Fortin, who was appointed at position last week, stressed that Canian military was scheduled to perform a “dry run” of plan on December 7. If things go as planned, y would n set up provincial distribution points by December 14 and be fully prepared for iculation by December 25.

 "We are hard at it ... so that we are certain to be rey when [ vaccine] comes in January," Fortin said.

 

With over 3,90,000 cases and 12,300 deaths, Cana is w prepping to battle a possible second wave of infection. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Trudeau touted possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine by early in 2021. In dendum, he h also said that most of residents would probably be vaccinated by next September.

Meanwhile, Major General Fortin also said that federal government would contract private logistics firms to facilitate distribution. Reaffirming his stance on early distribution, he said that distribution contracts to firms would be awarded as early as December 15.

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According to top officials, Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate could be approved by Health Cana as early as next month. With Ottawa inking a deal with Pfizer’s to secure at least 20 million doses of its vaccine candidate, experts predict that as many as three million Canians could get vaccine shots by March 2021.

Trudeau appeals to stay-at-home

With festival season approaching, Trudeau appealed to citizens to stay-at-home despite Christmas season around corner. In a live-streamed dress, Canian leer warned, people needed to immediately shrink number of people y meet, halt nessential movement, and work from home just as he will as coronavirus cases across Cana were “spiking massively.”  Citing overwhelming numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases that have strained healthcare systems to brink of collapse, Trudeau said, “ a rmal Christmas" in 2020 was “quite frankly right out of question.”