Pharmaceutical company Pfizer was offered State support to manufacture its Covid-19 vaccines in Ireland, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said. Speaking to the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party, Mr Martin said the Government approached Pfizer about setting up operations in Ireland to increase the supply of vaccines. Pfizer told the Government it will be concentrating its production in Belgium for now. Mr Martin told TDs and senators there are “lots of easy narratives” on the national vaccination programme but there is “no magic tree of vaccines out there”. Mr Martin said the EU was seeking to expand manufacturing capacity and Ireland has offered to assist Pfizer on capability here.

Source: Irish Independent March 10, 2021 21:01 UTC