COVID-19 vaccines worth $1B to be wasted by Canada cdnpoli
Karen Hogan released a report on the government’s vaccine program on Tuesday, and found generally the government did a good job procuring and distributing vaccines to provinces and Canadians in a timely way, but it failed to avoid wastage.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“At the end of May 2022, there were 32.5 million doses in inventory, and using unclassified and public documentation, we estimated those doses to be worth about $1 billion,” reads Hogan’s report. Hogan found that out of 169 million doses the government had received, 84.1 million had been given to Canadians, with a further 32.5 million in storage as of May, another 13.6 million doses have already expired, while 15.3 million doses have been donated and another 21.7 million have been offered for donation with no countries identified to take them yet.Article content
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