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5 a.m. – Pfizer vaccine production delay will slow first phase of B.C. immunization plan
Supply problems that will slow global deliveries of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine over the next four weeks will affect B.C.’s COVID-19 vaccination plan “in a significant way,” Health Minister Adrian Dix said Friday.
“But just in the immediate period, the next month,” Dix told a teleconference to announce upgrades to the West Coast General Hospital in Port Alberni.
Federal Procurement Minister Anita Anand revealed on Friday that the pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and BioNtech, partners in the vaccine, will delay the delivery of promised doses to Canada and other countries it supplies from Pfizer’s European manufacturing plant.
In B.C., Dix said the province received the 25,000 doses of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine it expected this week, but will experience a slight reduction in expected deliveries next week; then, starting Jan. 25, B.C. will get only half of the 50,000 doses health officials had planned on through the beginning of February.
12 a.m. – B.C. records 509 new cases, nine more deaths
Another 509 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in British Columbia since Thursday, and nine more people have died from the respiratory disease.
There have been a total of 1,047 deaths in B.C. since the start of the pandemic and 60,117 confirmed cases.
To date, 75,914 people have received a COVID-19 vaccine in B.C.
The province now has 4,604 active cases, a number that continues to drop, with 349 people being treated in hospital, 68 of whom are in intensive care.
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