By all means, yes, that is true. We were one of the first countries to sign with these corporations. It's because of the very hard work of our public servants and the fortitude and heft that the Government of Canada brought to the negotiating table each and every day during the months of August and September, when we were concluding these agreements.
Signing seven contracts with leading vaccine manufacturers is no small feat. This allowed us to have about 400 million doses, enough vaccines to inoculate Canadians 10 times over. That was in addition to the vast PPE procurements these same public servants accomplished for Canada, as well as the more than 40 million rapid tests procured. We have been working around the clock in order to ensure that Canadians have the supplies they need.
In addition to those procurements, we have put in place an end-to-end logistics system. We purchase deep-freeze and ultra deep-freeze storage. We purchase gauze, syringes, alcohol swabs and sharps containers. We deliver these to the provinces and territories so that we can support the provinces and territories in a very collaborative and co-operative manner and all Canadians are supported through to the end of this crisis.