Taiwan says COVID-19 vaccine talks held up on China sales deal

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TAIPEI: Talks on Taiwan buying the child version of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have stalled as Pfizer does not have the right to sell it and BioNTech and its Chinese partner do not make it, a Taiwan minister said on Monday (Apr 18). The sales rights for the vaccine in Greater China, includin

TAIPEI: Talks on Taiwan buying the child version of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have stalled as Pfizer does not have the right to sell it and BioNTech and its Chinese partner do not make it, a Taiwan minister said on Monday .

The vaccines were later purchased after Taiwan's government allowed chip-maker TSMC, a Buddhist charity and Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Foxconn, a supplier to Apple, to buy them on the government's behalf. "Pfizer makes and bottles the smaller child version of the vaccine. BioNTech does not have this delivery method," Chen told reporters.

 

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