"Canada is "certainly in the top five" on the list of countries to receive doses of a novel coronavirus vaccine the country's minister of intergovernmental affairs says.

Dominic LeBlanc made the comments during an interview with The West Block's Mercedes Stephenson airing on Sunday.

"As we have said from the beginning, we as a government, as a national government, aggressively negotiated contracts with seven major suppliers of potential vaccines," he said. "The three that appear the first to likely be approved for use because they're safe and effective [are] AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer."

LeBlanc said Canada has "millions of doses" under contract, adding that the first six million doses -- enough for three million Canadians requiring two doses each -- will begin arriving in early January.

LeBlanc said they are working with the premiers to ensure there is a "very, very effective and efficient logistics system to roll out these vaccines safely to provinces and territories so we can start immunizing Canadians on the very first opportunity." 

Asked how quickly a vaccine will be delivered across the country after it is approved by Health Canada, LeBlanc said doses will "start to arrive literally within a matter of weeks, if not a couple of weeks -- early January at the latest."

"And they will start to roll out the provinces and territories under the logistical chain of operations that is being put in place right now," he said.

Hannah Jackson, Global News

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https://globalnews.ca/news/7490450/coronavirus-vaccine-canada-leblanc/


Perhaps 20 years of Dominic Leblanc MP is more than enough?


Dominic LeBlanc
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On November 27, 2000, I was first elected to the House of Commons as Member for Beauséjour-Petitcodiac. I have had the privilege of being re-elected six times since that exciting day twenty years ago.
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