Malaysia buys additional 12.2 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine
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[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia on Monday signed a deal to buy an additional 12.2 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by US and German drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech, the health ministry said in a statement.
The deal brings the total amount of the Pfizer vaccines procured by Malaysia to 25 million doses, enough to cover 39 per cent of its population, the ministry said.
REUTERS
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