Canada has doubled the number of doses of Moderna Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine it has on firm order, Procurement Minister Anita Anand said, while the country’s top doctor warned that daily new cases could top 10,000 by January.

“Canada is exercising options for an additional 20 million doses of the Moderna vaccine candidate. This will bring Canada’s total allotment of this vaccine to 40m doses to be delivered in 2021,” Reuters quoted Anand as saying.

Canada reported 6,495 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, as infections surge across the country. “If we stay on the same trajectory, we could reach 10,000 cases daily by January,” Canada’s chief public health officer, Theresa Tam, said, edging back earlier estimates that Canada would hit that landmark by mid-December.