B.C. will be getting none of the 5,800 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine next week, as the manufacturer won’t be delivering any doses to Canada over that period.

Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin says the company has hit a snag with delivery delays around the world, and says Canada’s expected shipment of doses for next week will now come the week after.

Health Minister Adrian Dix told reporters today this is disappointing but he says health officials will make adjustments.

“Pfizer, I gather, has made it clear to the federal government that they’re making adjustments so that they can ramp up the large amounts of vaccine that we’re going to get. So this is disappointing, but something that we’re going to handle within our plan.”

Dix says B.C. was only expecting to get the 5,800 doses of the Pfizer’s vaccine next week, compared to more than 24,000 this week.

He says this week’s doses will continue to go to long-term care home residents and staff, and the province expects those doses to all be done by the end of next week.