Fleets of trucks are due to deliver 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca plc COVID-19 vaccine to Canada by Tuesday amid ongoing shipping delays from competing manufacturer Moderna Inc. Public Services and Procurement Anita Anand confirmed the exact arrival date of the AstraZeneca doses Friday following uncertainty just a day earlier. "We are now seeing that supply surge and it is set to continue," she said during a virtual briefing, referring to next week's 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca and the one million doses of the Pfizer Inc. vaccine due to arrive weekly until the end of May. Despite the impending deliveries of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines, Moderna's 590,000 doses due to arrive this weekend are facing a delay of "a few days" that Anand said is related to quality assurance issues. The minister said those delays are not related to the prospect of the EU imposing import restrictions.