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European countries struggle to make most of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses
Covid-19 vaccine vials, meaning shots are likely going to waste even as nations plead for more.Officials and healthcare professionals in France, Germany and Switzerland all pointed to yields short of six doses, adding to frustrations in countries already lagging vaccination campaigns in nations such as Britain and the United States.Also Read | What 2020 did to India’s inequalityThe losses add up: For 200,000 vials of the two-shot vaccine, 600,000 people can be inoculated at six doses per vial, compared with 500,000 at just five.The difficulties could also hinder Pfizer and BioNTech's new production target of 2 billion Covid-19 shots in 2021, up from 1.3 billion previously.The higher production forecast assumes health teams can draw that