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Canada Authorizes Covid-19 Vaccine From Pfizer and BioNTech


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Canada became the third country to authorize use of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, racing ahead of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Europe’s main regulator to approve shots for its most vulnerable citizens.

Canada will now begin its immunization rollout as early as next week—a daunting challenge for a country that is the second-largest in the world in terms of land mass yet sparsely populated.

 

Canada joins the U.K. and Bahrain in approving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine within the past week.

Canadian regulators posted its authorization notice online. A spokeswoman for Pfizer’s Canadian unit said Wednesday that Pfizer will supply Canada up to 76 million doses of the vaccine. The deal includes a definitive agreement for Canada to buy a minimum of 20 million doses with an option for 56 million more.

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