CANADA TO DONATE 10M VACCINE DOSES TO COUNTRIES IN NEED

Canada is donating all 10 million doses of the single-dose vaccine that it purchased from Johnson & Johnson but won't use to low- and middle-income countries. Procurement Minister Anita Anand announced the donation through the COVAX vaccine-sharing alliance Thursday as many developing nations continue to struggle with a shortage of shots. Health Canada authorized the J&J vaccine in March but it has never been used here. Now, with a surplus of vaccines from other manufacturers, Anand says Canada will redirect its J&J shots to countries in need. The federal government announced last month that it would also donate nearly 18 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, which has also been phased out of Canada's vaccination efforts, to poorer countries.