Million Pfizer jabs face being dumped after Israel-UK swap deal fails
by Harriet Sherwood from World news | The Guardian on (#5KSWB)
Israel says technical issues have scuppered deal to give UK Covid vaccines expiring on 30 July
More than a million Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses held in Israel that are due to expire at the end of July may be thrown away after attempts to broker a swap deal with the UK failed.
Israel had reportedly offered the jabs to Britain in return for a similar number of vaccines that the UK is due to receive from Pfizer in September. Health authorities are racing to vaccinate as many of its adult population as possible before Covid restrictions are lifted in England later this month.
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