Israel: Vaccines Rejected By Palestinians ‘Perfectly Sound’

Israel insisted that COVID-19 vaccines delivered to the Palestinian Authority the previous day, only to be rejected, were “perfectly sound” and identical to vaccines being given to Israelis.

Ramallah said it was canceling the agreement that would see some 1 million Pfizer vaccine doses handed over to the PA, citing the close expiration date of the doses. It said it had rejected a first batch of some 100,000 doses transferred to it. The doses were set to expire at the end of June.

But the Health Ministry in Jerusalem expressed surprise at the move, saying in a statement Saturday that the doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech inoculation were “perfectly sound” and “identical in every way to the vaccines currently being given to citizens of  Israel.”

Officials say it is standard practice to use vaccines whose expiration date is close, and so long as the date has not passed, manufacturers deem them perfectly safe.

Read more at Times of Israel.

{Matzav.com}