Canada will provide Mexico with five million doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine to meet its immediate pandemic vaccine needs, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced on Wednesday.
Mexico placed orders for the swine flu vaccine with several manufacturers, but most orders will be ready only at month's end, the Canadian minister said in a statement.
In the meantime, Ottawa is allowing Mexico to have five million doses of the medication, which had been reserved by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline for Canada.
Mexico is expected to replenish the borrowed Canadian stock by the end of March, Aglukkaq said.
As of mid-December, nearly half of Canada's 33 million people had been vaccinated against the swine flu, in the largest immunization program in the country's history.
More than 400 Canadians died from the swine flu.
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