Coronavirus live news: Pfizer cuts EU vaccine deliveries temporarily; non-EU travellers can’t enter France with rapid tests
Pfizer delay due to upgrading of its production capacity; lateral flow tests limited to hauliers travelling from England to France
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Pfizer will temporarily reduce its deliveries to Europe of its Covid vaccine while it upgrades its production capacity, the company has said.
The reduction in deliveries is reportedly due to Pfizer limiting output so that it can upgrade production capacity to 2 billion vaccine doses per year from 1.3 billion currently.
Philippine senators have questioned the government’s preference for the Chinese Covid vaccine after latest data suggested it has a lower efficacy rate than others.
President Rodrigo Duterte’s office said on Monday it was next month expecting to receive the first batch of coronavirus shots developed by Sinovac Biotech, which at that time had not yet filed an emergency use request with local regulators.
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