India Coronavirus Dispatch: Will the Pfizer vaccine come to India?

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Will the Pfizer vaccine come to India?

US-based drugmaker Pfizer has announced that its vaccine, BNT162b2, has been more than 90 per cent effective against Covid-19 in late-stage trials. But, will India get access to this vaccine? Pfizer developed the vaccine together with German biotech firm BioNTech. So far the firms have struck deals for hundreds of millions of jabs of the vaccine with western countries such as the US, UK, the European Union, and also Japan. The companies expect