The Latest: Spain confident of vaccine program despite delay
(WorldNews Spain)

By The Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain — Spain`s health minister said Saturday that his government is standing by its pledge to vaccinate a large part of its population by the summer despite the delay in the distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Minister Salvador Illa said that even though Spain will only receive 56% of the expected doses next week from Pfizer, Spain`s vaccination program has reached “cruising speed.” U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced Friday it will temporarily reduce deliveries to European countries of its COVID-19 vaccine while it upgrades production capacity. Illa said that despite this hiccup “there is no change to our supply calendar. Between now and...