Canada donated over 4M Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to COVAX. Today, 784K landed in Egypt

The 784,280 doses, donated through the COVAX Facility, brings Canada's total contributions to 4,225,760.

Hundreds of thousands of Moderna’s COVID-19 doses donated by Canada to a global vaccine-sharing program have safely arrived at an airport in Egypt, government sources say.

Government sources with knowledge of the vaccine schedule say shipments containing millions more COVID-19 vaccines are expected to be delivered in the coming days.

The 784,280 doses, donated through the COVAX Facility, brings Canada’s total contributions to 4,225,760.

“(Canada) is proud to assist (Egypt) in the fight against #COVID-19,” Louis Dumas, Canada’s ambassador to Egypt, tweeted Sunday. “No one is safe until everyone is safe.”

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday at the G20 summit in Rome that Canada is donating 10 million Moderna doses to poorer nations through the COVAX vaccine sharing facility, and will be ramping up its total vaccine contributions to 200 million by the end of 2022.

“The size of Canada’s commitment of 200 million doses by the end of 2022 is very significant given our size and given the fact that we do not have our own domestic bio-manufacturing capacity,” she said.

“It’s hard to be exactly precise and may be particularly hard for Canada since we’re not manufacturing this stuff ourselves. But let me just say, we expect those Moderna doses to be delivered quickly.”