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Original title: Italy once again approves the late delivery of the vaccine by pharmaceutical companies “will use all legal means”
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 24 (Reporter Zheng Haoning) Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte warned on the 23rd that pharmaceutical companies will postpone delivery of the new corona vaccine. Pfizer and Biotechnologies have done it. “
Conte wrote on social media that Italy’s vaccination plan was “made on the basis of contracts negotiated between the major pharmaceutical companies and the European Commission.” The delay in delivery of vaccines by pharmaceutical companies was in serious breach of the contract and was “unacceptable.”
On January 18, in Rome, Italy, Italian Prime Minister Conte delivered a speech in the House of Representatives. (Issued by Xinhua News Agency)
The new corona vaccine developed jointly by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. of the United States and the German biotechnology company has been approved for use in the European Union. The number of vaccines delivered to Italy will be reduced by 29% from today, and there is no indication of how long the reduction in supply will last. Italy and Poland previously warned that Pfizer could be taken to court.
Like Pfizer, British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said on the 22nd that due to a reduction in a factory’s production capacity, it will also reduce the number of new corona vaccines delivered to the EU. AstraZeneca did not disclose the reason for the decrease in production capacity.
Italy promotes the vaccination of two new coronavirus vaccines approved by the European Union, namely the vaccine developed by Pfizer and the vaccine developed by Modena in the United States. The European Medicines Agency is expected to decide on the 29th whether to approve the new corona vaccine jointly developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford in the UK.
Conte said that if AstraZeneca also delays the delivery of the vaccine, Italy could receive 3.4 million doses of the vaccine in the first quarter of this year instead of the 8 million doses previously expected.
On December 28, 2020, in a hospital in Rome, Italy, medical staff prepare for the new vaccination crown. (Issued by Xinhua News Agency)
Franco Locatelli, president of Italy’s Higher Health Council, said on the 23rd that if the problem of vaccine supply cannot be solved for a long time, Italy will have to reconsider the entire vaccination plan.
Locatelli said that due to the limited supply of vaccines, Italy has been forced to reduce the number of daily doses of vaccines by more than two-thirds, that is, from a high of about 90,000 daily doses two weeks ago to 20,000 to 25,000 doses. .
Reuters reported that Italy has received about 1.31 million doses of the vaccine and nearly 43,000 people have completed the two doses needed for the vaccine.
