The pace of Canada's vaccine programme has been even slower than the much-criticised roll-out in the EU, with both languishing far behind Britain and the United States
Daily Mail: Now the EU screws Canada: Country runs out of Covid vaccine after Brussels seizes veto over exports
* Canada is reliant on Europe for vaccines, with no home-grown jabs or US imports
* But stalling supplies from Pfizer and Moderna have contributed to a slow roll-out
* Trudeau government is under pressure for failing to get guarantees from the EU
Canada has been dragged into the EU's vaccine chaos with Pfizer and Moderna both cutting back deliveries from Europe while Brussels goes to war on jab exports to rescue its own stumbling vaccine roll-out.
With no home-grown vaccines in Canada and no jabs being shipped from the United States, the country is reliant on factories in Europe to supply the doses.
But Moderna's next shipment will be one-third smaller than expected - with only 168,000 jabs arriving instead of 250,000 - while Pfizer deliveries have seen a month-long slowdown because of delays at a manufacturing plant in Belgium.
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Update #1: Why Canada is falling behind in Covid vaccinations (BBC)
Update #2: Despite vaccine rollout headaches, feds expect campaign to scale up soon (Global News)
WNU Editor: I live in Canada, and our vaccine roll-out has been a disappointment. Canada will get its allotment of vaccines. But it will be later rather than sooner.
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