On that day 129 million Quantities of Covid-19 vaccine purchased by Mateusz Morawiecki’s government (75 million Pfizer/Biontech, 20 million AstraZeneca, 18 million Moderna, 15 million Janssen), We gave one tenth of each to other countries – Ministry of Health said.
A total of 12.8 million doses were administered in 2021-2022. In 2023, we received 2.7 million doses of Moderna vaccine that were apparently used or partially disposed of because we no longer provided any kits for free. This year we have not received any deliveries and we have not given anything.
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As MP Płaczek calculated, The value of the delivered vaccines is approximately PLN 1.3 billion. Beneficiaries: Armenia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Egypt, Philippines, Georgia, Iran, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, North Macedonia, Rwanda, Serbia, Taiwan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
But not only did we donate – we also had to pay for transport. According to data provided by the government, PLN 3.6 million was spent on this.
– It is not enough that we bought an excess that no one needed. Then we delivered them and the Polish taxpayer paid extra for the transport! This is madness, says the federal MP.
Where does this excess amount come from? In 2020-2021, the European Commission led by Ursula von der Layen concluded procurement contracts for COVID-19 vaccines with pharmaceutical companies on behalf of EU countries. 2.7 billion euros were immediately released to cover the collateral order For one billion doses of vaccines.
The Commission later explained that the relevant distribution decisions were taken by the national authorities of the Member States and that the Commission and its President were not involved in these procedures. The EC’s translation resulted from, among others: allegations of a conflict of interest by President Ursula van der Leyen, whose husband works as a director at Pfizer’s subsidiary Organsys.
The commission reveals, but only a part of it
In 2021, members of the European Parliament requested access to these agreements and certain related documents under the Access to Documents Regulation, in order to understand their terms and ensure that the public interest is protected, he explained in July of this year. “The Republic”.
However, the Commission granted access only partially He redacted some of the documents, saying this was done to protect business interests and the decision-making process.
MEPs filed a complaint with the European Court of Justice demanding the blockade be lifted. In its judgments, the court upheld the complaints in part and quashed the Commission’s decisions for irregularities.
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In April 2021, The New York Times reported that van der Leyen had exchanged text messages with Pfizer CEO Albert Borla in preparation for the vaccine order. In total, up to 1.8 billion doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine are to be imported. According to published prices, the deal, if fully implemented, would be worth up to 35 billion euros.
In January 2022, the EU Ombudsman accused the Commission of maladministration for failing to comply with a request to make these messages public information. The commission did not confirm the existence of the messages, arguing in its response that “short-term, interim documents were not kept”.