[GTranslate]TORONTO – A dose of vaccine for all Canadians who want to immunize themselves against Covid by July 1st. It is a message finally reassuring that launched yesterday by General Dany Fortin, head of the federal task force in charge of the management of the vaccination campaign in our country. At a press conference yesterday morning, Fortin stressed that in the coming weeks supplies of at least three of the four Covid-19 vaccines approved by Health Canada should gradually increase. This would allow you to arrive in early July with a dose of vaccine given to all adult Canadians who want to do it. According to the new roadmap presented by the authorities, in April about 7 million doses will arrive in Canada among those sent by Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca.
In any case, the estimates presented by Fortin are still cautious. Also because by adding up numbers of individual vaccine supplies that are expected to arrive in the coming months, it turns out that between now and June 30, the federal government expects to receive at least 36.5 million doses, enough to fully immunize Canada’s adult population with the first dose and recall injection.
In addition to this, to contribute to the acceleration of the vaccination campaign in Canada will also contribute the latest vaccine approved by the regulator, that of Johnson and Johnson: in the coming months – but in this case, there is no definitive lineup – at least 10 million doses produced by the American pharmaceutical giant will arrive in our country.
Unlike Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines, j. and j. vaccines are single-dose, that is, no need for a second injection to trigger the full immune response of man against Covid-19.
Pfizer has confirmed that in the next eight weeks it will send 8.5 million doses – more than a million a week – while Moderna (which sends vaccines every 14 days) will provide Canada with 1.4 million doses by April 19.
AstraZeneca, on the other hand, is ready to send a million doses to our country in April and another 500 thousand the following month. And also yesterday US President Joe Biden announced the sending to Canada of another 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca.
Currently, only people aged 16 and over can get vaccinated in Canada: about 31 million Canadians fall into this category.
Once in Canada, vaccines will be distributed to individual provinces and territories on a proportional basis depending on the population.
It will then be up to the provincial administrations to distribute the doses to the various municipalities and regions.
Fortin, during the press conference, indicated that the estimates made by the health authorities could in the future undergo adjustments in the event of logistical problems emerging, as has already happened in the past, capable of slowing down the supply of direct doses in our country.
So far, nearly 7 percent of Canadians have received at least one dose of vaccine and 1.6 percent have been fully immunized.
