Spain’s top health official says the government wants to inoculate against coronavirus at least 10 million of the country’s 47 million using a new vaccine developed by U.S. pharmaceutical Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech. Pfizer Inc. said Monday that its vaccine may be a remarkable 90 percent effective, based on early and incomplete test results that nevertheless brought widespread optimism. He expects that enough people in Spain will be inoculated, together with purchases of other vaccines, by May 2021. The country expects to receive the first doses from Pfizer in early 2021, the minister told public broadcaster TVE. The country’s polling institute, CIS, says 43 percent of Spaniards are wary of receiving the vaccine.

Source: The Standard November 10, 2020 13:43 UTC