The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):
1 p.m.
Arianne Reza, an associate deputy minister at Public Services and Procurement Canada, says Canada has a supply of the special, low-dead volume needles needed to extract six doses from vials of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine.
But she says there will be two million arriving in Canada next week, part of a new order for 37.5 million of the syringes.
Health Canada has not yet made a decision about whether it will amend the label on the vaccine to say it always contains at least six doses.
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12:55 p.m.
New Brunswick is reporting 27 new cases of COVID-19 today.
Health officials say 14 of the new cases were identified in the Edmundston region, which has been under a lockdown since Sunday.
They say 11 other cases were reported in the Moncton area and two in the Saint John region.
The province says it has 313 active reported infections and four people are in hospital with the disease, including two in intensive care.
New Brunswick has reported a total of 1,202 infections and 16 COVID-related deaths since the onset of the pandemic.
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12:15 p.m.
The man overseeing the country's national vaccine rollout says Canada is getting 149,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine over the next two weeks.
That's only one-fifth of what had been promised before the company slowed production in a bid to ramp up operations in Belgium.
Canada has been saying for several weeks that the shipments would return to normal in mid-February, but Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin now says Pfizer is sending 335,000 doses the week of Feb. 15, which is still only 91 per cent of the previous delivery schedule.
Fortin says the deliveries still are based on five doses per vial.
Earlier in the day Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said the feds had lowered their estimates for total Pfizer vaccines in-hand by end of March from four million to 3.5 million.
But Fortin says Canada is still on-pace to get four million doses by that time, saying the government had given the provinces more conservative figures for planning purposes.
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11:15 a.m.
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11:15 a.m.
Quebec is reporting 1,368 new cases of COVID-19, as well as 39 additional deaths due to the virus.
Hospitalizations declined by 26 to 1,264, while the number of people in intensive care dropped by nine to 212.
Two deaths were removed from the provincial count after an investigation found they were unrelated to COVID-19, for a total of 9,667 deaths and 258,698 cases since the pandemic began.
The province delivered 3,767 doses of vaccine yesterday, and has used up all but about 5,100 of the 238,100 doses it has received so far.
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11 a.m.
Schools in four more public health units in southern Ontario can reopen for in-person learning on Monday.
The government says students will be able to return to physical classrooms in the Ottawa, Eastern Ontario, Southwestern, and Middlesex-London public health units.
All students began their winter term online as part of a provincial lockdown, and the government extended remote learning for many as the province continues to fight COVID-19.
The government allowed schools in seven other public health units to resume in-person learning this week, but students in the rest of southern Ontario's public health districts continue to learn online.
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10:50 a.m.
Ontario is reporting 2,093 new cases of COVID-19 and 56 more deaths linked to the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 700 new cases in Toronto, 331 in Peel Region, and 228 in York Region.
The province reports nearly 12-thousand doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered since the last daily update.
Ontario says it had misinterpreted data on the number of people who received both doses of the vaccine, leading to an incorrect doubling of that figure in previous updates.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 28, 2021.
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