France will provide 100,000 doses of the anti-Covid Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine to the Czech Republic by mid-March, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis announced Thursday, February 25.
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We have been trying for some time to recover additional doses of vaccine.
We received a donation from Israel and France has now promised us 100,000 doses by March 15,
”he told CTK news agency.
The Czech Republic tops world statistics in terms of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over 14 days, and comes second, behind neighboring Slovakia, in death rate, according to an AFP tally.
The pace of vaccinations in this country of 10.7 million inhabitants is also slower than expected, with only 600,000 injections performed as of Thursday.
Andrej Babis also indicated that he had requested help from other countries in the European Union, without specifying which ones.
On Tuesday, its services said Prague had received 5,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine donated by Israel.
He did not say whether the vaccine supply promised by France was a donation or whether the Czech Republic should return the lift when it has sufficient supplies of vaccines.
