This is our largest week of shipments to date.

Vaccines will keep arriving faster and faster as we head into the spring, and not just because shipments of Moderna and Pfizer are ramping up which they are.

But because Canada has now approved yet another vaccine option This morning, Health Canada authorized the AstraZeneca Oxford COVID 19 vaccine, as well as the Serum Institute of India's version, Covas Shield, which is sponsored in Canada by Mississauga Verity Pharmaceuticals.

In other words, we now have a third safe and effective vaccine independently approved by health experts in Canada.

This is very encouraging news.

It means more people vaccinated and sooner because for AstraZeneca, like we were for Pfizer and Moderna, we're ready to get doses rolling.

Canada has secured two million doses of the Covid shield vaccine through an agreement with various for Verity Pharmaceuticals and the Serum Institute of India.

With the vaccine now approved in Canada, our first shipment of half a million of these doses will arrive within weeks.