The pharmaceutical company encountered a logistical obstacle in the supply of raw materials, as a result of which the production process will be delayed • It is not clear whether the decision will affect the transfer of vaccines to Israel
Pfizer Logistics Center in the US // Photo: AFP
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced tonight (Thursday) that it will halve the amount of vaccines for the corona virus that will be distributed to its customers in the coming weeks, due to a logistical problem that created the supply of one of the raw materials used by the company.
The announcement could be a blow to some countries expecting to receive the vaccine doses, but the company claims to meet the target of distributing one billion vaccine doses by 2021. "Increasing the supply chain of some raw materials turned out to be longer than planned The company's spokesman for the American Wall Street Journal.
The company hoped to transfer more than one hundred million vaccine doses to various sources during the last month of 2020, but now the company estimates that only fifty million doses will be distributed.
It is not clear at this stage how the cuts will affect the transfer of the vaccine to Israel.
Earlier it was reported that four million vaccine doses will arrive in Israel as early as next month.
In a meeting held yesterday (Wednesday) between the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Hezi Levy, and the directors of the HMOs, the senior official announced that the mass immunization process is expected to begin as early as the end of December.