The American laboratory Pfizera warned Friday of a drop "
from next week
" in deliveries of anti-Covid vaccines to Norway and Europe, the time to improve its production capacities, announced the Norwegian authorities.
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The temporary reduction will affect all European countries,
” the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) said in a statement.
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It is not yet clear how long exactly it will take before Pfizer returns to maximum production capacity, which will be increased from 1.3 to 2 billion doses
" per year, he said. added.
The FHI did not specify the extent of the reduction in deliveries for Europe as a whole, but said it expected to receive only 36,075 doses next week against 43,875 previously expected, a decrease of 17.8 % for the Scandinavian kingdom.
To compensate for this drop, Norway will draw on the precautionary vaccine stock that it had built up when it received the first doses.
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Although it is not a member of the European Union, the Nordic country is closely associated with it in many areas, including in the context of the purchase of anti-Covid vaccines negotiated by Brussels.