Government not considering new Pfizer-BNT vaccine purchase plan

Taipei, July 14 (CNA) The government will approve no further plans to purchase additional doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT) COVID-19 vaccine on a case-by-case basis, given that Taiwan will likely take delivery of 15 million doses of the vaccine in the near future, enough to inoculate Taiwanese until late this year or early next year, Cabinet spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) said Wednesday.

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