According to reports, the Palestinian government announced on the evening of the 18th local time that it would cancel a new crown vaccine exchange agreement with Israel because the vaccine handed over by Israel “does not meet technical indicators.”
According to the agreement between the two parties, Israel will provide Palestine with at least one million Pfizer stocks of Pfizer’s new crown vaccine to speed up the vaccination process in Palestine. In exchange, Palestine will provide Israel with the same amount of Pfizer vaccine in September or October this year.
However, when the first batch of about 90,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines arrived, the Pakistani authorities said that these vaccines were too close to the expiration date, and they did not have enough time to use these vaccines, and the exchange agreement was cancelled.
The spokesperson of the Palestinian government stated at a press conference that after the first batch of vaccines were tested by the medical and technical team of the Ministry of Health of Pakistan, it was found that these vaccines did not meet the “technical indicators stipulated in the exchange agreement.” Therefore, Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammed Shtaye Instruct the Minister of Health to cancel the agreement.
He said in a statement issued by the official Palestinian news agency that “the government refuses to accept vaccines that are about to expire”.
Since the large-scale vaccination of the new crown vaccine, among the approximately 9.2 million people in Israel, approximately 55% of eligible people have completed two doses of vaccination. According to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, among the population of about 5 million in Palestine, 270,000 people have completed two doses of vaccination.
Previously, UN experts have been criticizing Israel’s vaccination for failing to fully cover the Palestinians under its control. In this regard, Israel said that Palestine is responsible for the management of health affairs in its territory.
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