Health Canada approved on Friday a Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent or combination vaccine. It targets both the original virus that caused illness when the pandemic began in 2020 and the latest subvariants, Omicron BA.4 and BA.5, which now dominate in Ontario. Health Canada approved ...
2021. Health officials are expected to make an announcement on the ongoing fight against COVID-19 as provincial health systems eagerly await the approval of a vaccine that targets the Omicron variant of the virus. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick ...
2021. Health officials are expected to make an announcement on the ongoing fight against COVID-19 as provincial health systems eagerly await the approval of a vaccine that targets the Omicron variant of the virus. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick ...
Toronto ON, 24 November 2021 –The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today that Health Canada has approved its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older. This decision...
Senior Health Canada officials said Thursday they could be just days away from approving a COVID-19 vaccine as many provinces reported increasing hospitalizations and Quebec cancelled plans to allow gatherings over the Christmas holidays.
Chief medical adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma said final documents from the American drugmaker Pfizer are expected Friday. It will include which production lots of the vaccine will be shipped to Canada and when. Sharma wouldn’t put an exact date on approval or delivery yet, but s...
The approval of a fourth COVID-19 vaccine and news of accelerated deliveries for another had government officials taking an optimistic tone Friday about the path of the pandemic in Canada. “We can be really increasingly optimistic in our outlook and that is really great,” said ...
The approval of a fourth COVID-19 vaccine and news of accelerated deliveries for another had government officials taking an optimistic tone Friday about the path of the pandemic in Canada. “We can be really increasingly optimistic in our outlook and that is really great,” said Dr. ...
Canada is expected to get up to 249,000 doses of the vaccine by the end of December, with the first doses scheduled to come within a week of its Wednesday (Dec. 9) approval. Maj. Gen. Dany Fortin, vice president of logistics and operations at the Public Health Agency of Canada, sai...
Moderna has received authorisation for its Covid-19 vaccine from Health Canada for the immunisation of individuals aged 18 years and above.