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Canada is still expected to receive two million doses of the Moderna vaccine by the end of March.
On Thursday, Alberta said further reductions to Pfizer-BioNTech shipments meant the province would only receive 405,000 doses instead of the once-promised 468,000 shots by the end of March.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday Canada still anticipates receiving its promised four million doses of Pfizer vaccine before the end of March.
An online survey from Angus Reid released Friday found public opinion souring on the federal government’s vaccine plan in recent weeks.
Forty-five per cent of Canadians say they are confident in the federal government’s ability to distribute vaccine throughout the country, down from 58 per cent six weeks ago.
Meanwhile, only 35 per cent of Albertans say they are confident the province can effectively handle its end of the vaccine program, the lowest mark in the country.
To date, Alberta has administered 104,327 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, an increase of 1,803 from the previous day. The count includes 14,352 second doses.
Case count, hospitalizations tick up Friday
Also Friday, Alberta recorded 543 new cases of the novel coronavirus, from 11,591 tests, representing a 4.5 per cent positivity rate.
It’s a slight increase in both case counts and positivity rate over the past few days but remains far below the peak of a greater than nine per cent positivity rate seen earlier in the second wave.
As of Thursday, there were 7,805 active COVID-19 cases in Alberta, down from 8,041 the previous day.
As well, there are now 594 Albertans in hospital with the virus, 110 of whom are in intensive-care units, marking a slight increase in total hospitalizations from Thursday.
Fourteen more Albertans have died of COVID-19, with only one new mortality coming in the Calgary zone. Among the deaths was a man in his 30s from the Central zone who officials say had no known comorbidities.
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