COVID-19 Update for December 18 2020 – 12:50PM

This morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the COVID-19 vaccine delivery schedule for January 2021, which will see roughly 500,000 doses – approximately 125,000 per week – arriving for Canadians in the first month of the new year.

COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatment

In addition to doses already received, the federal government has scheduled the delivery of over 200,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine for next week and 168,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine before the end of December – pending Health Canada approval – according to Trudeau. This comes in advance of the scheduled deliveries in 2021 noted above.

Trudeau also announced an investment of roughly $9 million through the National Research Council of Canada to support the development of treatments for COVID-19. This funding is being awarded to four Canadian companies, located in Montreal and Vancouver.

• Bold Therapeutics (Vancouver), receiving up to $289,032
• JN Nova Pharma (Montreal), receiving up to $4,609,000
• Laurent Pharmaceuticals (Montreal), receiving up to $4,166,796
• Qu Biologics (Vancouver), receiving up to $109,764