Pfizer to deliver through COVAX some vaccines pledged to poorer nations

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FILE PHOTO: A medical worker prepares to dilute a vial of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination center in Singapore

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Pfizer and BionTech will deliver through the international vaccine-sharing facility COVAX some of the 2 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses it announced on Friday as new supplies for low- and middle-income countries. [nL5N2N83AQ]

The doses will be allocated "through bilateral agreements, agreements with supranational organizations as well as our partnership with COVAX," a Pfizer spokesman said.

Earlier on Friday a BioNTech spokeswoman said: "we are currently still evaluating this."

(Reporting by Ludwig Burger, editing by Thomas Escritt and Angus MacSwan)