Canada Approves Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine, Orders 20 Mn Doses

Source: solarseven, Shutterstock Summary Canada will start receiving AstraZeneca drugs from April, to be produced at US plants. Canada has orde...

Canada’s Largest Shipment of Pfizer & Moderna COVID Shots This Week

Source: Shutterstock Summary Canada is set to receive a record number of shots from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna this week. This spike in the de...

Supply Chain Snarls Canada’s COVID Inoculation Campaign

  On Monday, December 14, 2020, support worker Anita Quidangen was one of the first Ontarions to be administered the first vial of Pfizer-BioNTe...

Canada Approves 6 Doses from Each Pfizer-BioNTech Vial as Cases Rise

Summary 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 bord...

Canada’s Employment Falls Drastically In Jan 2021 Amid COVID Lockdow...

Summary 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...

Novavax Agrees To Make COVID Shots In Canada, But It Will Take A Whi...

Stepping up Canada’s efforts to produce COVID-19 vaccines at home, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday, February 2, that US drugm...

Canada’s Precision Gets C$25Mn Funding To Boost COVID Shot Productio...

Summary The Canadian government has invested about C$ 25.1 million in genetics medicine technology provider Precision Nanosystems Inc. The company...

Canada May Soon Make COVID Shots, Pfizer Predicts US$15B Vaccine Sal...

Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine progress is likely to jump up a level as reports expect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to announce details regarding a...

Canada Mulls Travel Ban, Strict Restrictions As New COVID Cases Rise

Summary Canada may renew travel ban, restrictions after spike in new cases. Opposition has blamed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau-led government for...

Providence Therapeutics: Canada’s 1st COVID Shot Heads For Trial

Summary Providence Therapeutics Holdings Inc announced on Tuesday that it has begun clinical trials for the first made-in-Canada vaccine against th...

Novavax (NVAX) Stocks Up As Canada Agrees To Buy 76-Mn Vaccine Shots

Summary Novavax has received an advance order from Canada for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate NVX-Cov2373. Its stocks climbed nearly 4 per cent on t...

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Shot May Be Powerful Enough To Beat UK Variant

Summary Results of a new study show that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine may have the capability to neutralize the new mutant coronavirus vari...

Despite COVID, Canada Saw Decreased Business Insolvencies In 2020: S...

In 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...

1 Million Vaccine Doses Per Week In Canada From April

Canada is expected to receive up to one million COVID-19 immunization doses per week from various drug makers from April 2021 onwards, announced Major...

Medicago’s Plant-based Vaccine Candidate: Canada’s Own COVID Shot?

While Canada is purchasing big batches of coronavirus shots from foreign pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Moderna, etc., there is a COVID-19 v...

Trudeau Govt To Make COVID Test Mandatory For Canada-Bound Flyers

Summary 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....

AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID Shot Greenlit in UK, Under Review In Canada

Summary The UK is the first nation in the world to approve the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine. The AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine report...

Health Canada Okays Moderna’s Vaccine For COVID-19

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine became the second jab to be approved by regulatory agency Health Canada on Wednesday, December 23. The vaccine has an...

Pandemic Pulls Down Life Satisfaction Among Canadians To 17-Year-Low

Summary Canadians’ life satisfaction levels hit the lowest point during the pandemic between the 2003 to 2020 period. By June 2020, the aver...

Mutant Coronavirus Strains: What We Know & Impact On Financial Marke...

Summary A new variant of the coronavirus has been spreading rapidly across the United Kingdom. Canada, Ireland, India, Belgium, Germany, France, I...