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Canada Approves Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine, Orders 20 Mn Doses
February 27, 2021 03:34 AM AEDT| By Ipsita SarkarSource: solarseven, Shutterstock Summary Canada will start receiving AstraZeneca drugs from April, to be produced at US plants. Canada has ordered 20 million doses from AstraZeneca. Canada now has three COVID-19 drugs: Pfizer-BioNTech, Modern...
Canada’s Largest Shipment of Pfizer & Moderna COVID Shots This Week
February 24, 2021 01:48 AM AEDT| By Shreya BiswasSource: Shutterstock Summary Canada is set to receive a record number of shots from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna this week. This spike in the delivery count comes after the country faced a shipment shortage for about a month. The delivery for...
Supply Chain Snarls Canada’s COVID Inoculation Campaign
February 11, 2021 12:38 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyOn Monday, December 14, 2020, support worker Anita Quidangen was one of the first Ontarions to be administered the first vial of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Canada was the third nation after the United Kingdom and Bahrain to authorize the eme.....
Canada Approves 6 Doses from Each Pfizer-BioNTech Vial as Cases Rise
February 10, 2021 09:07 PM AEDT| By Ipsita SarkarSummary Only 3% of the population have received the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines so far. Fines to be hiked up to C$3000 against those crossing border without COVID test certificate. Canadian regulators have allowed health workers to extract.....
Canada’s Employment Falls Drastically In Jan 2021 Amid COVID Lockdown
February 06, 2021 03:35 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Canada’s unemployment levels shot up by 0.6 percentage points to 9.4 per cent in January, the highest surge since August in 2020. As per Statistics Canada, employment was down by 1.2 per cent month-over-month (MoM) in January. Th.....
Novavax Agrees To Make COVID Shots In Canada, But It Will Take A While
February 04, 2021 12:01 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyStepping up Canada’s efforts to produce COVID-19 vaccines at home, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday, February 2, that US drugmaker Novavax Inc (NASDAQ:NVAX, NVAX:US) has agreed to a tentative deal. The Maryland, US-based compa...
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Canada’s Precision Gets C$25Mn Funding To Boost COVID Shot Production
February 03, 2021 08:50 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary The Canadian government has invested about C$ 25.1 million in genetics medicine technology provider Precision Nanosystems Inc. The company said the investment will help finance the development of its C$ 50.2-million biomanufacturing cen.....
Canada May Soon Make COVID Shots, Pfizer Predicts US$15B Vaccine Sales
February 03, 2021 03:33 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaCanada’s COVID-19 vaccine progress is likely to jump up a level as reports expect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to announce details regarding a deal to produce the shots in the country. Canada not having the bandwidth to manufacture COVID shot...
Canada Mulls Travel Ban, Strict Restrictions As New COVID Cases Rise
January 27, 2021 09:43 PM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharySummary Canada may renew travel ban, restrictions after spike in new cases. Opposition has blamed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau-led government for not doing enough. The Prime Minister dispelled fears about vaccine shortage. The Ju.....
Providence Therapeutics: Canada’s 1st COVID Shot Heads For Trial
January 27, 2021 08:22 PM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneySummary Providence Therapeutics Holdings Inc announced on Tuesday that it has begun clinical trials for the first made-in-Canada vaccine against the COVID-19 virus. The PTX-COVID19-B shot’s clinical study will be conducted in Toronto to t.....
Novavax (NVAX) Stocks Up As Canada Agrees To Buy 76-Mn Vaccine Shots
January 25, 2021 08:42 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Novavax has received an advance order from Canada for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate NVX-Cov2373. Its stocks climbed nearly 4 per cent on this agreement. The biotech scrips are 1532 per cent up in one year, led by the US government fund.....
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Shot May Be Powerful Enough To Beat UK Variant
January 22, 2021 12:54 AM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharySummary Results of a new study show that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine may have the capability to neutralize the new mutant coronavirus variant found in Britain. While the results were not conclusive, they have been described as “p.....
Despite COVID, Canada Saw Decreased Business Insolvencies In 2020: StatCan
January 20, 2021 02:47 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyIn spite of the strong economic headwinds triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, business insolvencies declined by nearly a third, or 29.4 per cent, year-over-year (YoY) to 474 in the second quarter of 2020, reported Statistics Canada. This drop in numb...
1 Million Vaccine Doses Per Week In Canada From April
January 15, 2021 11:37 PM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyCanada is expected to receive up to one million COVID-19 immunization doses per week from various drug makers from April 2021 onwards, announced Major General Dany Fortin, who is leading the country’s coronavirus vaccine logistics at the Public...
Medicago’s Plant-based Vaccine Candidate: Canada’s Own COVID Shot?
January 12, 2021 11:24 PM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharyWhile Canada is purchasing big batches of coronavirus shots from foreign pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Moderna, etc., there is a COVID-19 vaccine brewing in its own backyard as well. And it is a plant-based one! Canadian biopharmaceutical...
Trudeau Govt To Make COVID Test Mandatory For Canada-Bound Flyers
December 31, 2020 08:08 PM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneySummary The federal government plans to make it a requirement that air passengers pass a COVID-19 PCR test three days before they arrive in Canada. The Trudeau government cabinet has arrived at the decision to enact this rule as quickly as poss.....
AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID Shot Greenlit in UK, Under Review In Canada
December 30, 2020 09:17 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary The UK is the first nation in the world to approve the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine. The AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine reportedly fights the new, highly contagious mutant variant of the coronavirus that is currently spreadi.....
Health Canada Okays Moderna’s Vaccine For COVID-19
December 24, 2020 02:58 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyModerna’s COVID-19 vaccine became the second jab to be approved by regulatory agency Health Canada on Wednesday, December 23. The vaccine has an efficacy rate of 94.5 per cent and can be administered among people above 18 years of age. In an o...
Pandemic Pulls Down Life Satisfaction Among Canadians To 17-Year-Low
December 22, 2020 03:21 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneySummary Canadians’ life satisfaction levels hit the lowest point during the pandemic between the 2003 to 2020 period. By June 2020, the average life satisfaction was at 6.71, down from 8.09 in 2018. Younger Canadians were more impacted b.....
Mutant Coronavirus Strains: What We Know & Impact On Financial Markets
December 21, 2020 10:38 PM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharySummary A new variant of the coronavirus has been spreading rapidly across the United Kingdom. Canada, Ireland, India, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, and Bulgaria have announced restrictions or halted flights from th.....
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