Canada arrives 30,000 Pfizer vaccines… Vaccination from the 14th as in the US

-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted that Pfizer-Bioentech’s Corona 19 vaccine arrived in Canada on the night of the 13th.

The 30,000 vaccine injection bottles that were released from the plane late will be distributed to the centers of 14 regions in Canada, and will be vaccinated to elderly nursing homes and first-line medical staff from Monday, the 14th as in the United States.

In the United States, vaccinations begin at 145 hospitals in 50 states from 8 am (10 pm Korean time) on this day. The US plans to distribute about 3 million vaccine bottles to 636 hospitals by the 15th and 16th.

Canada’s first arrival is about one-hundredth of that of the United States, and health officials said there will be 250,000 more vaccinations by the end of the year. The U.S., where Pfizer is headquartered, was sent directly from the factory in Callamae, Michigan, while Canada was airlifted from its European factory in Purus, Belgium, as in the United Kingdom. It came, Reuters reported. It is not known whether Pfizer vaccines from European factories were unloaded in Germany and the United States. By the end of this year, there will be less than 300,000 vaccine injections in Canada. The UK is expecting about 4.8 million, and the US is expecting 25 million.

Since Pfizer-Bioentech is inoculated twice every 21 days, all arrivals by the end of the year are expected to be used for the first dose.

As of the 14th, the US had a cumulative diagnosis of 16.25 million and 290,200 people died, while the UK had 1.85 million confirmed and 64,200 deaths. Canada ranks 27th in the world with 460,000 cumulative confirmed cases, and 23rd with 13,400 deaths.

On the other hand, Pfizer announced that the prevention effect rate was raised from 90% on November 9 to 95% on the 18, and then applied for emergency use to the US FDA and the UK MHRA on the 20th, respectively. The British authorities approved it for use on the 2nd, received 800,000 vaccination vials, and vaccinated on the 8th.

After approval from the UK, Canada, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia approved the use of Pfizer, and in the United States, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and CDC (Disease Control and Prevention Center) on the 11th and the 13th were in the order of approval.

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