Latvia health minister fired in vaccine row
Tue 05th January 2021 | 11:40 PM
Riga, Jan 5 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 5th Jan, 2021 ) :Latvia's prime minister on Tuesday fired his health minister in a row over coronavirus vaccination policy, straining ties within the governing coalition.
Krisjanis Karins said the Baltic state was "struggling with the consequences of not having a clear and comprehensible plan of action".
Latvia has focused its vaccination plan mainly on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which has so far not been authorised in the European Union.
Government opponents have criticised the slow start of Latvia's vaccination campaign and the choice to purchase a relatively small amount of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, which have been authorised by the European Medicines Agency.

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