Canada approved Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, the second country to do so, paving the way for health authorities to step up an inoculation campaign against a worsening second wave.
“Know however dark the winter will be, spring is coming and better days will be back,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a regular briefing.
Canada will receive up to 168,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine by the end of the year. By Jan. 31, it should have almost 1.2 million doses from both Moderna and Pfizer, whose vaccine Ottawa approved earlier this month, he said.
Trudeau also announced Canada would extend a 72-hour ban on passenger flights from Britain to Jan 6, citing a new and more infectious variant of COVID-19.
