Canada to Receive Early Shipment of Moderna’s COVID 19 Vaccine Before Year’s End

Canada to Receive Early Shipment of Moderna’s COVID 19 Vaccine Before Year’s End
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Health Minister Patty Hajdu at the Civic Hospital in Ottawa, on Dec. 15, 2020. Reuters/Blair Gable
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OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada has signed a contract to receive up to 168,000 doses of Moderna’s COVID−19 vaccine before the end of December.

The Moderna vaccine is still in the final stages of its review by Health Canada but Trudeau says deliveries could begin within 48 hours of the department’s experts giving it the green light.