Feds Hoping for AstraZeneca Shots This Week as Pfizer BioNTech Prepare Next Delivery

Feds Hoping for AstraZeneca Shots This Week as Pfizer BioNTech Prepare Next Delivery
A dose of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is displayed at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England on Jan. 2, 2021. Gareth Fuller/PA Wire/Pool via Reuters
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OTTAWA—The federal government hopes to start receiving doses of AstraZeneca’s recently approved COVID-19 vaccine this week as the flood of shots that flowed into Canada from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna last week partially subsides.

Health Canada announced on Friday that it had approved the AstraZeneca vaccine, the third COVID-19 shot to have received regulatory approval since the start of the pandemic.