Pfizer sues Poland over unclaimed covid vaccines

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is going to court in an effort to force Poland to receive and pay for 60 million doses of coronavirus vaccine that the country agreed to buy under the terms of a contract negotiated by the European Commission.The contract, first signed in April 2021 with the support of member states, committed EU nations to buy 650 million doses in 2022 and 450 million in 2023 from Pfizer’s subsidiary BioNTech. But after the winter covid surge of 2021-22 subsided, demand fell abruptly.Governments in eastern and central Europe, where vaccine uptake was already low, began to complain that they were oversupplied and would have to buy millions of vaccines only to destroy them when they expired.In April 2022, Poland said it had stopped taking deliveries, citing a force majeure clause in the contract. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which drove millions of refugees to Poland, had drained its public…
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