Australia purchases Pfizer vaccines from Poland as COVID-19 infections spike

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Australia has purchased about 1 million doses of Pfizer Inc's (PFE.N) COVID-19 vaccine from Poland to add to its inoculation efforts in Sydney and its home state, which on Saturday entered a snap lockdown amid record new infections.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday the extra vaccines would start arriving immediately and over half will be directed to 20- to 39-year-olds in New South Wales, as the state reported its second largest increase in locally transmitted infections. L4N2PL09M

"We've been seeing those case numbers rise in Sydney and New South Wales each day and that is terribly concerning," Morrison said at a news conference in Canberra. New South Wales, the most populous state, reported 415 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, the second largest increase after the previous day's record 466.

 

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With less than 50% of Polish population not vaccinated, can we be enlightened on why they are giving up supply to Australia?

How does a country like Australia not able to provide their own vaccines? Makes no sense

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