Pfizer Sues Poland Because It Doesn’t Want to Buy More COVID-19 Vaccines

Pfizer has filed a lawsuit against Poland because the country doesn’t want to buy more contracted doses of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Syringes with Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are pictured at the temporary vaccination point in the Wroclaw Stadium in Wroclaw, Poland, on June 26, 2021. Omar Marques/Getty Images

Pfizer is suing the government of Poland for alleged failure to buy 60 million doses of the drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to reports and Polish officials.

Pfizer, which filed a civil suit last week in Brussels, is seeking roughly $1.5 billion for the 60 million doses that Polish authorities said last year they no longer want to purchase, according to Polish media outlet Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, which was the first to report on the terms of the suit.