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Alberta running dry on COVID-19 vaccine supply

EDMONTON, AB – The provinceĀ is running out of COVID-19 vaccine supply.

Nearly 90,000 doses have been given out to eligible health-care workers and staff and residents in continuing care centres around the province to date.

Premier Jason Kenney says due to the unexpected supply disruption the federal government announced last week, Alberta will have no more vaccine doses by Tuesday, January 19th.

“Accordingly, no more new first dose appointments will be accepted and some first dose appointments already booked will be rescheduled over the coming days to accommodate limited supply. Doses have been allocated to ensure second doses are available for committed appointments,” stated the Premier on Monday morning.

Kenney says he’s deeply disappointed at the situation Alberta is now facing and the next late last week news that Pfizer shipments would be cut by 20-80% over the coming weeks only adds to the province’s frustration and means the government has had to significantly slow down the vaccination plan.

“Alberta currently has the capacity to deliver 50,000 doses per week. In March, we expect to be able to administer about 200,000 doses per week. But we do not have the supply to match. Unfortunately, this means that the planned vaccination of First Nations and MĆ©tis individuals and seniors over age 75 has been put on hold,” Kenney said.

The Premier though says he wants to assure Albertans that despite this setback, the province remains in position to immediately ramp-up and get back to record vaccination numbers once sufficient doses are delivered.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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