Dry-run tests to ensure the safe distribution of the Moderna vaccine, once it’s approved, have started.
Major-General Dany Fortin, who is heading up the Federal rollout effort, says this is the current planning underway.
To prepare, five minus-20 freezers have been procured by the government to help ensure effective immunizations in different areas of the country.
“The rehearsals of this nature are part of a deliberate and phased approach to readiness in advance of an authorization decision from Health Canada,” said Fortin.
The government is putting an important focus on planning the vaccine’s safe distribution in First Nations communities in the territories and isolated communities.
Federal officials support these communities in planning together and with the government for the rollout.
Canada’s Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Howard Njoo reminds Canadians that we are not at the end of the pandemic, but at the beginning of the end.