Canada donated over 4M Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to COVAX. Today, 784K landed in Egypt – National

A whole lot of hundreds of Moderna’s COVID-19 doses donated by Canada to a worldwide vaccine-sharing program have landed in Egypt, authorities sources say.

Authorities sources with data of the vaccine schedule say shipments containing thousands and thousands extra COVID-19 vaccines are anticipated to land within the coming days.

The 784,280 doses, donated by means of the COVAX Facility, brings Canada’s whole contributions to 4,225,760.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland mentioned on Saturday on the G20 summit in Rome that Canada is donating 10 million Moderna doses to poorer nations by means of the COVAX vaccine sharing facility, and can be ramping up its whole vaccine contributions to 200 million by the top of 2022.

“The scale of Canada’s dedication of 200 million doses by the top of 2022 may be very vital given our measurement and given the truth that we wouldn’t have our personal home bio-manufacturing capability,” she mentioned.

“It’s arduous to be precisely exact and could also be significantly arduous for Canada since we’re not manufacturing these things ourselves. However let me simply say we anticipate these Moderna doses to be delivered rapidly.”

Extra to return. 

— With information from International Information’ Mike Le Couteur