GENEVA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is
in advanced negotiations with Pfizer about including the
company's COVID-19 vaccine in the agency's portfolio of shots to
be shared with poorer countries, a senior WHO official said on
Monday.
"We are in very detailed discussions with Pfizer. We believe
very soon we will have access to that product," Bruce Aylward, a
senior adviser, said at the WHO's executive board meeting.
The WHO's vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX is set to start
rolling out vaccines to poor and middle income countries in
February.
(Reporting by Emma Farge and Stephanie Nebehay
Editing by Gareth Jones)