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According to Health Canada, 97% of COVID-19 cases in Canada were either of the BA.4 or BA.5 subvariant as of mid-September 2022. As such, NACI issued a recommendation for people to use one of the approved bivalent vaccines as their upcoming booster shot. [ 129 ]
Approval Deployment Pfizer–BioNTech: phase III clinical trials 51-76 million [1] [2] [3] 9 December 2020 [4] 14 December 2020 Moderna: phase III clinical trials 44 million [5] 23 December 2020 [6] 31 December 2020 Oxford–AstraZeneca: phase III clinical trials 23.9 million [7] 26 February 2021 [8] 10 March 2021 [9] Janssen (Johnson & Johnson)
Users of this vaccine passport, the first in Canada, faced fewer COVID-19 public health restrictions. [2] By early July, the demand for the paper vaccine passports temporarily overwhelmed the system. At the same time, the province reached a new "marker in the pandemic"—the COVID-19 vaccines supply exceeded "demand on a daily basis." [2] [44]
Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday it had started the real-time submission of its application seeking Health Canada's approval of its oral COVID-19 antiviral drug candidate. The move comes after the ...
On December 9, 2020, Health Canada approved the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccines were distributed amongst the provinces by the Federal government. [3] Ontario received an initial delivery of 6,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine [4] of a total of 90,000 doses to be received before the end of 2020. [5]
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 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 . It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Most cases over the course of the pandemic have been in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta. Confirmed cases have been reported in all of Canada's ...
(Reuters) - Canada Post said on Monday its striking workers will return to work on Tuesday, Dec. 17 after the country's labor relations board ordered an end to the work stoppage.