‘I knew supply was coming’: how Canada’s push for Covid vaccines paid off

Anita Anand's determination to get doses for Canadians means the country now has world's highest global vaccination rate

For many Canadians, spring was a dark period marked by surging coronavirus infections, lockdowns - and the envy of watching their American neighbours get vaccinated en masse.

But for Anita Anand, the country's public services and procurement minister, the mounting frustration that Canada was being left behind in the global vaccine race didn't make her lose focus.