CANADA
Over 20M COVID-19 vaccine doses now sitting in Canadian freezers
Canada has gone from being desperate for
every dose of vaccine it could get to stockpiling millions of them in freezers across the country.
Data on vaccine deliveries, distribution and injections provided by
Health Canada and the provinces show almost 22 million doses have been delivered but not yet used.
That includes a national “reserve” of nearly 10 million doses, and more than 11.7 million doses delivered to provincial and territorial governments that have yet to be administered.
Procurement Minister Anita Anand says how many of those doses can be considered excess and available for donation to other countries is still up in the air.