Kentucky Storm Holds up Canadian Vaccine Delivery as Shipper Hurries to Catch Up

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

OTTAWA—The “big lift” for Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts this week has been sideswiped by a big snowdrift.

UPS temporarily closed its operations in Louisville, Ky., Monday because the city received more than 15 cm of snow.