Canada Expecting to Receive 3.3 Million Vaccine Doses This Week

Canada Expecting to Receive 3.3 Million Vaccine Doses This Week
A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto on January 7, 2021.Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press / File
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OTTAWA—Canada is scheduled to receive a flood of new COVID-19 vaccine doses this week, with around 3.3 million shots due for delivery from different pharmaceutical companies over the coming days.

The expected influx would mark the single-largest week of deliveries into Canada since the start of the pandemic, thanks to planned shipments from three different sources.