It comes as Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison faces criticism for not having any meetings or phone calls with Bourla at all. Bourla has been frank about the way world leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, contact him personally to secure supplies. In March, he said former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had called him 30 times. Medsafe approved Pfizer on February 3, and the vaccine rollout started later that month. Hipkins has previously told the Herald that the Government has done all it can to procure as many doses of the Pfizer vaccine as quickly as possible.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 13, 2021 22:04 UTC