Covid-19 roundup: Sup­ply chain short­ages lead to half the Mod­er­na dos­es de­liv­ered to Cana­da; J&J shots paused out of con­cern clots would be in­ap­pro­pri­ate­ly treat­ed — re­port

The num­ber of dos­es of Mod­er­na’s vac­cine ex­pect­ed to be de­liv­ered to Cana­da by the end of April has near­ly been cut in half, ac­cord­ing to the coun­try’s pro­cure­ment min­is­ter Ani­ta Anand.

Be­tween 1 mil­lion and 2 mil­lion dos­es of the 12.3 mil­lion ex­pect­ed to be de­liv­ered in time for the sec­ond quar­ter will be de­layed un­til the third, as Mod­er­na said Fri­day that ship­ments to Cana­da and the UK are be­hind sched­ule af­ter a sup­ply chain short­age will de­lay de­liv­er­ies.

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