{"id":9097,"date":"2025-08-25T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9097"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:15:06","slug":"modernas-latest-covid-19-vaccine-is-both-approved-and-made-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/modernas-latest-covid-19-vaccine-is-both-approved-and-made-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderna\u2019s latest COVID-19 vaccine is both approved and \u2018made in Canada\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada has approved <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/moderna-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moderna\u2019s<\/a> newly updated <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/Covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a> vaccine \u2014 and for the first time, the vaccines will be \u201cmade in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company says having the vaccine available from domestic manufacturers and suppliers creates a critical piece of health resilience to \u201censure Canada is ready, not just reactive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this approval, for the first time ever, mRNA COVID-19 vaccine doses for Canadians will be made in Canada. That\u2019s a remarkable milestone,\u201d Stefan Raos, general manager at Moderna, says in an emailed statement sent to Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis matters for Canadians because COVID taught us that while viruses don\u2019t respect borders, our ability to respond can often be impacted by them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada has approved <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/moderna-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moderna\u2019s<\/a> newly updated <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/Covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a> vaccine \u2014 and for the first time, the vaccines will be \u201cmade in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company says having the vaccine available from domestic manufacturers and suppliers creates a critical piece of health resilience to \u201censure Canada is ready, not just reactive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this approval, for the first time ever, mRNA COVID-19 vaccine doses for Canadians will be made in Canada. That\u2019s a remarkable milestone,\u201d Stefan Raos, general manager at Moderna, says in an emailed statement sent to Global News.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/modernas-latest-covid-19-vaccine-is-both-approved-and-made-in-canada\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moderna\u2019s latest COVID-19 vaccine is both approved and \u2018made in Canada\u2019<\/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":[96,18,253,14,15],"class_list":["post-9097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-moderna","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097","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=9097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9098,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions\/9098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}