Deal to buy BioNTech vaccine foiled by outside sources: minister

Taiwan was extremely close to securing 5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine late last year, but the deal fell through at the last minute due to interference from outside sources, Taiwan's health minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Wednesday.

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