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Chairman / President

Albert Bourla

CEO / Managing Director

Albert Bourla

CFO / Finance Director

Dave Denton

Industry

Pharmaceuticals

Website

pfizer.com

Headquarters address

235 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017, United States

Stock Code

NYSE:PFE

Year founded

1849

The New York Times had asked the court to force the disclosure of a message exchange between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer’s CEO that could show how a costly vaccine deal was struck in 2021. Photo: via AP

European Union

EU’s von der Leyen loses court case over secret Pfizer texts

Wednesday’s ruling is likely to affect how the EU’s executive arm treats text messages in the future.

15 May 2025 - 10:28AM

Biomedicine: Companies

Hong Kong residents reticent to get latest Covid-19 jab, Moderna survey finds

4 Dec 2024 - 8:22PM

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Elderly Hongkongers can apply for Covid XBB variant vaccine starting Wednesday

12 Dec 2023 - 8:11PM

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong receives first batch of Covid XBB variant vaccines

Vaccination arrangements for the 100,000-jab batch manufactured by US drug firm Pfizer expected to be announced in December.

30 Nov 2023 - 8:10PM

The first batch of Covid XBB variant vaccines has arrived in Hong Kong. Photo: Sam Tsang

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong’s private healthcare sector expected to offer RSV vaccine in December

British pharmaceutical company GSK beats Pfizer in race to offer vaccine that can protect elderly against common respiratory infection.

20 Nov 2023 - 5:29PM

Coronavirus US

Coronavirus: US FDA approves updated Covid-19 vaccines

The FDA decision opens the newest vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to most Americans even if they have never had a Covid vaccination.

12 Sep 2023 - 3:31AM

Singapore

She died 4 days after a Covid booster jab. Singapore paid her family US$169,000

Filipino Ontal Charlene Vargas died of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart. A coroner ruled it was likely related to the vaccine she had received.

17 Apr 2023 - 9:10AM

The Health Ministry confirmed that this was the second death related to Covid-19 vaccination in Singapore. The first was a 28-year-old Bangladeshi man who died of myocarditis in July 2021, about three weeks after receiving a vaccine shot. Photo: Reuters

Coronavirus China

China gives green light to 2 home-grown Covid-19 antiviral treatments

The approval comes during reprieve from tsunami of infections but another wave could be on the way after Lunar New Year migration.

30 Jan 2023 - 6:00PM

Science

Chinese drug matches Paxlovid in treating less severe Covid symptoms

Patients who took the Chinese pill, known as VV116, recovered after a median time of 4 days and it had fewer adverse effects compared with the Pfizer drug.

30 Dec 2022 - 10:13PMvideocam

Coronavirus pandemic

WHO pleased to see China ease strict zero-Covid policies

It’s important that governments listen ‘when the people are in pain,’ a top official said in wake of protests in the country over coronavirus restrictions.

3 Dec 2022 - 3:27AMvideocam

A worker in a protective suit waits to administer Covid-19 tests in Beijing in November. Photo: AP

Coronavirus pandemic: All stories

What’s next for pandemic winner Pfizer and its US$28 billion war chest?

Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine saw the pharmaceutical company become the world’s most visible drug maker, but with its stock falling in 2022, success has left investors impatient for an encore.

5 Nov 2022 - 7:45PM

Close up at the vial with the inscription Comirnaty, mRNA etc, the needle and syringe while a female GGD healthcare worker prepares the Pfizer - BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines drawing them from the vial glass bottle to the syringes in the special area at the mega vaccination center in Eindhoven. The jabs are administered as a booster shot. The third-dose booster is available for all in the Netherlands in addition to the lockdown as the nation battles outbreaks of the new omicron variant coronavirus mutation of the pandemic. Eindhoven, The Netherlands on January 7, 2022 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Coronavirus Hong Kong

Antiviral drugs cut risk of death in Covid-19 patients, Hong Kong study shows

Large-scale study shows positive effects of two drugs given early to patients still in the community.

31 Oct 2022 - 7:00AM

Coronavirus vaccine

Explainer | Are the new Omicron-focused boosters safe and effective?

FDA has authorised emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna boosters that target BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron.

2 Sep 2022 - 4:22PMvideocam

Coronavirus pandemic

German government prepares roll-out of adapted Covid-19 vaccine

The vaccine is adapted to the BA.1 variant and Germany will receive about 14 million doses of the vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, subject to EU approval.

30 Aug 2022 - 8:19AM

Coronavirus vaccine

Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging they copied Covid-19 vaccine tech

Moderna has filed a lawsuit against the two pharmaceutical firms and said it was seeking damages for activities occurring after March 8 this year.

26 Aug 2022 - 10:35PMvideocam

A medical worker holds a vial of the Moderna vaccine. File photo: dpa

Coronavirus pandemic

Joe Biden tests positive for Covid-19, has ‘very mild symptoms’

The 79-year-old president is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and had begun taking Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill Paxlovid – he will continue carrying out his full duties while isolating at the White House.

22 Jul 2022 - 4:57AMvideocam

Chinese coronavirus vaccines

Chinese mRNA booster fights Omicron 4 times better than Sinovac: study

AWcorna vaccine produced 4.4 times more Omicron antibodies than for those boosted with Sinovac, scientists behind clinical trial write in Cell Research journal.

17 Jun 2022 - 9:47PMvideocam

Coronavirus pandemic

Pfizer offers to sell medicines at cost to poorest countries

The US pharmaceutical giant currently holds patents for 23 drugs, including Comirnaty and Paxlovid, its Covid vaccine and oral treatment; this commitment will increase access to nearly 1.2 billion people, Pfizer chief said.

25 May 2022 - 6:39PM

An advertising poster outside Pfizer headquarters in New York. Photo: AP

Coronavirus pandemic

Experts worry over ‘booster fatigue’ amid hunt for new vaccine improvements

Despite success in preventing serious illness and death, there’s growing pressure to develop vaccines better at fending off milder infections on top of aggressive variants.

24 Apr 2022 - 9:47PMvideocam

Coronavirus pandemic

Taiwan says Covid-19 child vaccine talks held up over Chinese sales rights

Taiwan sales rights for the child version of the vaccine belong not to producer Pfizer but to BioNTech and its Chinese sales agent, Fosun Pharma.

18 Apr 2022 - 5:59PMvideocam

Chinese coronavirus vaccines

China approves trials of home-grown mRNA vaccines as cases surge

The approvals add CanSino and CSPC to the race among Chinese companies to use mRNA to fight the coronavirus, offering viable alternatives to the vaccines already in production by Pfizer and Moderna.

4 Apr 2022 - 6:19PMvideocam

A billboard promoting vaccinations outside a shopping mall in Beijing. Photo: AFP

Coronavirus Hong Kong

16,000 Hong Kong patients receive new oral anti-Covid drugs

Hospital Authority has bought antiviral drugs molnupiravir, made by US firm MSD, and Pfizer’s Paxlovid, with both having been administered to patients for two weeks.

26 Mar 2022 - 9:14PM

Paxlovid and Molnupiravir are being used to treat Covid-19 patients in Hong Kong. Photo: Reuters

Fosun Group

Fosun sees profit rise, set to make generic Pfizer, Merck Covid-19 pills

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group is looking into which of its existing plants can be used to manufacture generic versions of Pfizer’s nirmatrelvir, which is sold under the Paxlovid brand name, and Merck’s molnupiravir.

24 Mar 2022 - 6:20PMvideocam

Coronavirus Hong Kong

Coronavirus: nearly 10,000 Hongkongers treated with oral antivirals

Hospital Authority Chief Manager Dr Lau Ka-hin says public health facilities have administered MSD’s molnupiravir to 8,500 patients so far.

23 Mar 2022 - 1:39PM

Medicine

Five Chinese companies approved to make cheaper version of Pfizer’s Covid-19 oral drug

The five Chinese drug makers were among 35 firms to sign non-exclusive sublicensing agreements with the United Nations-backed MPP.

18 Mar 2022 - 9:00PM

Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) treatment pill Paxlovid. Photo: Reuters

India

Why are so many affluent Indian expats suddenly heading to Dubai?

Pfizer Covid shots, sparkling clean streets and tax-free policies are among the draws. And for investors with US$2.7 million to spare, there are ‘Golden Visas’, too.

6 Mar 2022 - 4:18PM

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan in front of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Photo: Instagram

Coronavirus pandemic: All stories

Japan’s Covid-19 vaccine found ‘safe and effective’

Drug maker Shionogi is seeking regulatory approval as Japan currently relies on shots from Pfizer and Moderna; Covid-19 has already infected 5 million people in the country and killed more than 24,000.

4 Mar 2022 - 7:05PMvideocam

Coronavirus pandemic

BioNTech plans modular coronavirus vaccine factories in Africa

The German firm, which developed its Covid-19 shot with Pfizer, hopes to the move will make the jabs more widely available on the continent.

17 Feb 2022 - 2:59AM

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