Another $750 million CDN is being added to a one-billion-dollar federal fund to expand high-speed internet to Canadians in rural and remote communities.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that the Universal Broadband Fund will see 98 per cent of Canadians connected to high-speed internet by 2026.
The initial billion-dollar program was announced in the 2019 budget.
Pfizer said Monday that an early peek at the data on its coronavirus vaccine suggests the shots may be a surprisingly robust 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, putting the company on track to apply later this month for emergency-use approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Canada has bought the rights to 20 million doses of Pfizer's experimental COVID-19 vaccine, which the company says has been highly effective in one large-scale trial.
And while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the early data is encouraging, an eventual vaccine is no use to anyone who catches the virus now.
He says until a viable vaccine is available for mass distribution, Canadians need to keep up the good safety and hygiene practices recommended by public health officials.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that the Universal Broadband Fund will see 98 per cent of Canadians connected to high-speed internet by 2026.
The initial billion-dollar program was announced in the 2019 budget.
Pfizer said Monday that an early peek at the data on its coronavirus vaccine suggests the shots may be a surprisingly robust 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, putting the company on track to apply later this month for emergency-use approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Canada has bought the rights to 20 million doses of Pfizer's experimental COVID-19 vaccine, which the company says has been highly effective in one large-scale trial.
And while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the early data is encouraging, an eventual vaccine is no use to anyone who catches the virus now.
He says until a viable vaccine is available for mass distribution, Canadians need to keep up the good safety and hygiene practices recommended by public health officials.
For more information: https://globalnews.ca/news/7450907/pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-update/
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