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MPs write to Covid vaccine companies to demand costs will not rise
A dose of the Pfizer booster jab is prepared at Copes Pharmacy in London
A CROSS-PARTY group of MPs has written to pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Moderna to urge that the cost of the lifesaving Covid-19 vaccine does not rise in Britain.
It comes amid reports that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will go up by 400 per cent in the US.
The MPs, who include Green MP Caroline Lucas and SNP MP Philippa Whitford, wrote to the firms today, ahead of their quarterly profit returns.
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