Ontario Has Over 1 Million Unused Vaccine Doses & That's The Biggest Stockpile In Canada

Some provinces have less than 100K doses still to use.
Unused COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Are Over 1M In Ontario
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When it comes to unused COVID-19 vaccine doses in provinces and territories, Ontario has the most with more than a million stockpiled.

Canada's Minister of Health Patty Hajdu tweeted numbers on how many doses have been delivered and how many have been used as of April 5.

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Ontario has the biggest stockpile of more than 1.4 million with 4,022,875 doses delivered and 2,545,640 administered as of that date.

Then there's Quebec's unused total of 768,492 followed by 395,470 in B.C., 370,733 in Alberta, 154,142 in Manitoba, 83,179 in Nova Scotia, 68,256 in New Brunswick, 63,462 in Saskatchewan and 59,209 in Newfoundland.

Nunavut, Yukon, P.E.I. and Northwest Territories all have a stockpile of unused COVID-19 vaccine doses that's less than 17,000.

Health Canada has a robust website with all the latest information on the vaccines and can answer any questions you may have. Click here for more information.

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    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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