BioNTech will deliver the first doses of their Covid-19 vaccine to Canada this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday."Canada has secured an agreement with Pfizer to begin early delivery of doses of their vaccine candidate," Trudeau told a news conference. "We are now contracted to receive up to 249,000 of our initial doses of Pfizer BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine in the month of December."The vaccine is expected be approved by Health Canada as soon as Thursday.Pending Health Canada approval, he said the first shipment could be delivered next week, with millions more doses to follow in 2021.Trudeau had come under criticism from opposition parties for saying Canadians won’t be among the first to get a vaccine against COVID-19.