Canadian Provinces Push Back Vaccination Plans as Pfizer Deliveries Grind to a Halt

Canadian Provinces Push Back Vaccination Plans as Pfizer Deliveries Grind to a Halt
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is administered to a personal support worker at the Ottawa Hospital on December 15, 2020 in Ottawa. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
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Some Canadian health-care workers are being told they'll have to wait longer to receive their first doses of COVID-19 vaccines as deliveries from a major manufacturer grind to a temporary halt.

Canada is not expected to receive any Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines this week as the company revamps its operations, and deliveries are expected to be slow for the next few weeks.