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Covid-19: the Pfizer vaccine is reorganizing to ramp up

2021-01-17T19:10:44.415Z


Arrangements in its Belgian factory will lead to delays in dose deliveries this week in Europe. While the vaccination campaign is accelerating across Europe, the fear of a lack of doses is mounting among the populations and "vaccinators". Friday, the announcement by Pfizer / BioNTech of delivery delays of "three to four weeks" had sown panic. In a letter to the European Commission, the health ministers of six Member States (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia) had deemed the


While the vaccination campaign is accelerating across Europe, the fear of a lack of doses is mounting among the populations and "vaccinators".

Friday, the announcement by Pfizer / BioNTech of delivery delays of

"three to four weeks"

had sown panic.

In a letter to the European Commission, the health ministers of six Member States (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia) had deemed the situation "

unacceptable"

, especially as it

"also affects the credibility of the vaccination process ”

.

The German government had deplored

"an unexpected and very short-term communication".

Read also:

From the factory to your arm, the long journey of Pfizer's vaccine

Finally, the American laboratory and its German ally reversed their announcement the next day, indicating that they had put in place a

"production plan"

to limit the drop in power to the week of January 18.

“We will revert to the initial schedule of deliveries for the Member States of the European Union from the week of January 25, with

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Source: lefigaro

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