Medsafe assessing first tranche of Pfizer data; freezers purchased

Medsafe assessing first tranche of Pfizer data; freezers purchased
Rebecca Howard
Medsafe is assessing the first data Pfizer has provided for its covid-19 vaccine and has purchased nine large freezers to store more than 1.5 million doses at temperatures as low as minus 80 degrees Celsius.  Pfizer expects to be able to give its final tranche of data to Medsafe by the end of March and the final stage of the assessment process can begin then, a Ministry of Health spokesperson said.In October, the NZ government signed an agreement to purchase 1.5 million vaccines – enough for 750,000 people – from Pfizer and Bio...

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