{"id":7062,"date":"2024-09-04T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2024-09-04T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T01:50:53","slug":"health-canada-orders-provinces-to-destroy-old-covid-19-vaccines-amid-wait-for-new-batch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-orders-provinces-to-destroy-old-covid-19-vaccines-amid-wait-for-new-batch\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Canada orders provinces to destroy old COVID-19 vaccines amid wait for new batch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada has directed provinces to withdraw and destroy remaining supplies of last year\u2019s COVID-19 vaccines while it works to authorize updated shots, which is expected to happen in October, according to Ontario\u2019s health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVaccines will be available once Ontario receives supply from Health Canada following their regulatory authorization of the new, updated vaccine formulation,\u201d read a statement from Ontario spokesperson Hannah Jensen.<\/p>\n<p>A notice posted on the federal government\u2019s immunization guide says vaccines aimed at Omicron variant XBB.1.5 is no longer available in Canada. Updated shots, made to target the now-dominant JN.1 or KP.2 strains are expected to get the green light \u201cin the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada has directed provinces to withdraw and destroy remaining supplies of last year\u2019s COVID-19 vaccines while it works to authorize updated shots, which is expected to happen in October, according to Ontario\u2019s health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVaccines will be available once Ontario receives supply from Health Canada following their regulatory authorization of the new, updated vaccine formulation,\u201d read a statement from Ontario spokesperson Hannah Jensen.<\/p>\n<p>A notice posted on the federal government\u2019s immunization guide says vaccines aimed at Omicron variant XBB.1.5 is no longer available in Canada. Updated shots, made to target the now-dominant JN.1 or KP.2 strains are expected to get the green light \u201cin the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-orders-provinces-to-destroy-old-covid-19-vaccines-amid-wait-for-new-batch\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health Canada orders provinces to destroy old COVID-19 vaccines amid wait for new batch<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,83,96,18,21,282,287,360,218,119,309,70,14,362,15],"class_list":["post-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-manitoba","tag-new-wave","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-nova-scotia","tag-ontario","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-quebec","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-saskatchewan","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7064,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions\/7064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}