Canada has delivered about one-quarter of the vaccine doses it has promised to less wealthy countries and can’t say when more doses will go out the door.
In 2021, Canada promised to donate 50 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from its own contracts and at least 150 million more through financial contributions to the COVAX vaccine sharing alliance.
To date, Canada has donated 12.7 million direct doses and $545 million in cash to buy 87 million more.
COVAX says it cannot yet report specifics on the doses purchased because it’s still negotiating prices with vaccine makers.
Canada’s promise was that all doses and
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