Pfizer halts Covid vaccine cargo to Israel over pending dues

US pharma firm Pfizer stopped a cargo of almost 700,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to Israel after the federal government did not pay for the final 2.5 million doses, in line with The Jerusalem Post.
With the nation presently within the midst of elections, Pfizer is worried that the government-in-transition won’t pay for the shipments.
The Israeli Health Ministry has not commented on the matter.
Pfizer advised The Jerusalem Post that it has delivered all of the vaccines as agreed to underneath its November 2020 settlement with Israel.

Israel paid for the primary 10 million vaccines it obtained to handle nearly all of its mass vaccination marketing campaign, in line with the report.
An settlement to produce further doses was made between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla when Israel began to run brief in February.

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“The company is currently working with the Israeli government to update the agreement, to supply additional vaccines to the country.” the corporate stated.

Meanwhile, a radio community operated by the nation’s Armed forces reported that Pfizer known as Israel a “banana republic”, a time period used to explain politically unstable nations whose economies are depending on restricted useful resource merchandise reminiscent of minerals and bananas.