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WHO expects to have access to Pfizer vaccine for COVAX ‘very soon’
GENEVA — The World Health Organization is in advanced negotiations with Pfizer about including the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the agency's portfolio of shots to be shared with poorer countries, a senior WHO official said on Monday.
"We are in very detailed discussions with Pfizer. We believe very soon we will have access to that product," Bruce Aylward, a senior adviser, said at the WHO's executive board meeting.
The WHO's vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX is set to start rolling out vaccines to poor and middle income countries in February. — Reuters
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