By the end of this week, Canada should have enough vaccines to inoculate with both doses three-quarters of all Canadians over the age of 12. Brigadier General Krista Brodie, a military commander who manages national vaccine delivery logistics for the Public Health Agency of Canada, said that Pfizer-BioNTech will send more than 2.4 million doses and Modern about 1.4 million.
With the arrival of these substantial quantities of vaccines – 3.8 million – the total deliveries made by pharmaceutical companies to Canada will exceed 50 million doses, enough to give two injections to 75% of residents.
But even before shipments scheduled for this week arrive, Canada still has a supply of about seven million vaccines already delivered but not yet used.
In July, a further 18 million doses are expected to arrive, enough to fully vaccinate all 33.2 million Canadians over the age of 12. Children below this threshold cannot be immunized until vaccine studies on children are completed by the end of summer or autumn.
As of Sunday, more than 25.5 million residents have received at least one dose, and Canada is on the verge of reaching 10 million fully vaccinated people.
Vaccination efforts have also reached a new record in recent days, with an average of over 470 thousand doses per day in the last week: more than 86% of these doses went to those who had already received the first injection.
The defeat of Covid-19 passes through vaccines, virologists, researchers and doctors, in general, keep repeating.
At the Scotiabank Arena, 26,771 doses were administered on Sunday. With this number of vaccine administrations, Toronto may have set the world record for injections administered in a single day in a clinic. Certainly, city officials assure that the temporary mass immunization clinic inside the Raptors and Maple Leafs headquarters broke national and North American records. The vaccine race has decreed the success of the event called “Our Winning Shot” organized in order to encourage residents to receive the first and second dose especially now that the Delta variant flies Covid infections.
Scotiabank was given 978 first doses and 25,793-second doses. Of those who got vaccinated, nearly 1,295 were young and 25,476 were adults.
A significant milestone, therefore, in the vaccination campaign of the city that is trying to shorten the times by adding 375 thousand new appointments in its vaccination clinics in the next three weeks precisely because of concerns about the spread of the Delta variant.
Starting at 8 am Wednesday, June 30th., Mayor John Tory said, it is possible to book for the weeks of 5, 12 and 19 July. “As you can see across Europe, including Britain, there is a slowdown in reopenings because of the Delta strain which is a real threat there and we just want that not to happen here – Tory said – we want to fight it with our best weapon, which is vaccines.”
The number of Covid-19 cases has been steadily declining for months now, along with the increase in vaccination rates but the fear that with the Delta variant the infections will resume running has prompted Tory to ask the staff for the possibility of organizing another large-scale vaccination event such as the one at the Scotiabank Arena. “It’s a huge logistics business because we’ve already set up nine city-run clinics and I think there are 36 clinics running in total across Toronto at the moment, so we’re tapping into the resources to do something special but we’re also doing great,” Tory added.
