Albert Bourla

Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of US pharmaceuticals company Pfizer, shared the story of his parents, Jews from Thessaloniki, and how they managed to be among the 2,000 survivors from a community of 50,000 nearly eradicated by the Holocaust.

Albert Bourla, the Greek chairman and chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, took to social media on Monday to announce that his father-in-law just got vaccinated in Greece.

"This is my father-in-law, the 1st member of our family to receive his 1st dose of the vaccine," he said in a post on Twitter accompanied by a photo.

Albert Bourla, the Greek chairman and chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, has taken to social media to lament the "deeply disturbing" events that took place earlier this week in the American capital, when dozens of pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol.

Pfizer Inc's chief executive, Albert Bourla, said on Wednesday he was confident that by the end of 2021 there would be more vaccine doses than required to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

His remarks came after Britain approved a vaccine produced by Pfizer and its German biotechnology partner BioNTech on Wednesday. The two companies say their vaccine is 95% effective.

Governments around the world should not rush to reopen their economies due to the optimism created by the vaccines for the novel coronavirus has been made available, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said on Wednesday at the 31st Greek Economic Summit.

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The death toll from the coronavirus spiked again in the United States, and Latin America's pandemic crisis deepened, as Europe's re-opening from lockdown grew bolder by the day.