In a press release on Friday, Trudeau reiterated his expectation that every Canadian who wants a vaccine will receive one by September.
Trudeau told reporters Canada has secured an additional two million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine through Verity Pharmaceuticals and the Serum Institute of India. The first shipment of 500,000 vaccines is expected to arrive within a few weeks.
This shipment will expand on the 20 million doses AstraZeneca has already received, Trudeau said.
Trudeau also received 643,000 doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines this week.
Both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna significantly delayed delivery to Canada following a combination of manufacturing delays and claims from Europe, where Canada is obtaining its doses.
New variants that spread
According to Dr. Theresa Tam, head of public health in Canada, who informed reporters Friday, Canada has reported 858,217 cases of Covid-19 since the pandemic began.
There were 21,865 deaths due to Covid-19, she said.
Tam said that in the past week, an average of 97,120 Covid-19 tests were completed daily with a 3.2% positivity and a daily average of 2,960 cases of Covid-19 and 52 deaths.
In the past week, there were 2,269 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals and 564 patients receiving critical care, Tam added.
As of Friday, 964 cases of the B.1.1.7 variant, 44 cases of the B.1.351 variant and two cases of the P.1 variant have been reported in Canada, Tam said.
Tam warned that controlling the epidemic would be much more difficult if new, more transmissible variants spread.