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Vaccine Hunters Canada is an online volunteer group many Canadians have used to find vaccine appointments. In mid-April 2021, the Government of Canada reached a deal with Pfizer to receive 8 million more vaccines on top of what was already ordered, with more than 2 million vaccines coming into the country per week beginning in the month of May ...
On August 13, 2021, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc and Transport Minister Omar Alghabra announced that the federal government plans to mandate the vaccination of all federal public servants, employees in federally-regulated transport industries, and passengers of commercial air travel, interprovincial rail service, and large marine vessels with overnight accommodations ...
In March 2021, amid supply shortages, NACI issued a strong recommendation that second doses of two-dose COVID-19 vaccines (such as the AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Pfizer vaccines) be given up to four months after the first, as opposed to the three-to-four week intervals used in the clinical trials and recommended by Health Canada. NACI stated ...
The chief medical advisor of Health Canada, Supriya Sharma, [14] [15] as of April 2021, oversees the COVID-19 vaccine approval process in Canada. [14] [16] On 29 March 2021, Sharma supported the National Advisory Committee on Immunization's declaration of a pause for the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Canadians under the age of 55 ...
ArriveCAN was introduced by the federal government on April 20, 2020, as part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and launched on April 29, 2020. [2] The app was developed by a two-person [3] Canadian consulting firm, GC Strategies, through a pre-existing contract with the CBSA. [4]
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In Canada, roughly 10% of the populace were infected with the virus, [4] with 363 confirmed deaths (as of December 8); confirmed cases had reached 10,000 when Health Canada stopped counting in July. [5] Canada began its vaccination campaign in October and vaccinated a higher proportion of its citizens than any other country.