Anne Harris, Managing Director of Pfizer Australia and New Zealand, says speed was “absolutely critical” in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I have to say we were incredibly proud to partner with the government – the Australian government, the Therapeutic Goods Administration did things very differently in order to address this issue around speed,” Ms Harris told Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood.
“In fact, for the first time, we had rolling submissions, so as soon as the clinical data was available, we were able to submit it to the Therapeutic Goods Administration, they were able to evaluate that and within a matter of weeks after that assessment was done, we had vaccines in Australia, we delivered the first of vaccines in Australia for protection.”
Ms Harris said Pfizer has now delivered 3.8 billion doses of vaccine to over 180 countries around the world.
“It required a huge effort, and even within Australia we have now delivered 74 million vaccines to Australians, we’ve delivered a million doses of the COVID treatment to Australians.”
The Alliance is presented by Pfizer.
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