Germany breaks pact, buys 30 million additional doses of Pfizer vaccine

The news was first released to the daily Bild, under which there is an analog agreement for about 50 million doses with the American Modern, and was later confirmed by Health Minister Jens Spahn.

Berlin thus deviates from the pact for solidarity among member states to provide the vaccines collectively. As it is taught, the Merkel government has been negotiating deals with Biotech to increase the production of vaccine on German soil.

A former Novatitis factory in Marburg will be used by Biotech to produce more doses by the month of February. Earlier, the German minister had promised they would not benefit from the fact that the first approved vaccine in the EU came from a German company.

The news has been commented on with disappointments about Europe, and the controversy has been about the unfair distribution of the first doses, with Germany providing more than other states.

Meanwhile, a shipment of 470 thousand doses is at risk of remaining in Belgium because of the bad snow weather. A series of regions, including those of Liguria and Piedmonte in Italy, have not yet begun vaculation. The problem is resulting in dositorate, with Germany announcing it would drop 1,000 of these because they were not stored at the right temperature.

Spain, meanwhile, will hold a registry with people who will decide not to be vaccinated, which it will then share with other EU countries.