It marks the first time the drugmaker has delivered abroad from American facilities. FMTNews Pfizer
NEW YORK: Pfizer Inc’s shipment of Covid-19 vaccine to Mexico this week includes doses made in its US plant, the first of what are expected to be ongoing exports of its shots from the US, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters yesterday.
Many countries where the virus is still rampant are struggling to acquire vaccine supplies to help tame the pandemic. Pfizer and German partner BioNTech SE have been supplying other countries with doses from its main European production plant in Belgium.It has received more than a million doses from Belgium since Wednesday and expects around another million this week.Pfizer will use extra capacity in its US facilities to deliver shots abroad while continuing to meet its commitment to supply the US, the source said, adding that the drugmaker will also make shipments from Belgium.
A deal Pfizer signed with the White House last year had barred it from shipping doses made in the US to other countries until after March 31, according to the source and a US official, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
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