Anti-Covid vaccines: Pfizer ensures it can limit delivery delays for Europe
An employee walks past a row of freezers containing the BNT162b2 anti-Covid vaccine at the Pfizer plant in Puurs, Belgium (undated photo).
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Pfizer announces less delays than initially mentioned.
The American laboratory Pfizer has indeed revised its estimates of late deliveries downwards.
The European factory of Pfizer, located in Puurs in Belgium, will ultimately be less late than what had been announced this Friday to the fury of Europeans with only a week of delay.
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With our correspondent in Brussels,
Pierre Benazet
It is now only until January 24 that vaccine deliveries will suffer delays, says Pfizer.
From January 25, its
European plant in Puurs
near Antwerp will resume the pace initially planned for deliveries to the European Union of the vaccine designed by its German partner BioNTech.
In total the EU has a potential order for 600 million doses of this vaccine, BNT162b2.
This is a clear improvement compared to the three to four weeks delay announced this Friday and which had provoked 24 hours of anger on the part of Europeans.
► To read also: The deliveries for the EU of the Pfizer vaccine will be delayed for "3 to 4 weeks"
And for the European Commission, these commitments from Pfizer follow official protests from the Balts and Scandinavians and the phone call from the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen to the CEO of Pfizer which has apparently paid off.
After having assured this Friday that the doses promised in the contracts with the EU would indeed be delivered by the end of the first quarter, with an acceleration at the end of February beginning of March, it is now for February 15 that Pfizer announces a increased deliveries.
Paradoxically, it is work intended to increase production capacity that causes these delays.
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