🌻🌻🌻EU to buy extra 100 million doses of
Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine
By Reuters Staff
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will buy an
extra 100 million doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, bringing the
total from the two firms to 300 million doses, European Commission President
Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday.
“We decided to take an additional 100 million doses
of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, which is already being used to vaccinate people
across the EU,” she said on Twitter.
“We will therefore have 300 million doses of this
vaccine, which was assessed as safe and effective,” von der Leyen added.
The plan comes after some of the vaccine candidates
ordered by the EU faced unexpected delays in clinical trials, forcing the bloc
and other wealthy nations to rely on shots from fewer manufacturers than
initially planned.
The Pfizer/BioNTech shot, the first COVID-19
vaccine to be approved by Western drugs regulators, is being rolled out in
countries including Britain and the United States.
Under the EU contract, the two firms have committed
to rapidly deliver 200 million doses after regulatory approval for 15.5 euros
($18.8) apiece, EU officials told Reuters in November.
The extra 100 million doses would be supplied at
the same price, but with the timetable to be negotiated, EU officials said.
All 300 million doses are expected to be delivered
in 2020 and 2021, Pfizer/BioNTech said in a statement on Tuesday.
“The additional 100 million doses will be delivered
in 2021, supporting the vaccination campaigns, which started two days ago in
all 27 member states,” BioNTech Chief Executive Officer Ugur Sahin said.
With a population of 450 million, the bloc is now
relying on the 200 million Pfizer shots it has already ordered for its first
vaccinations.
In January, the EU is also expected to approve the
shot developed by Moderna. It has an initial order of 80 million doses, with an
option for 80 million more that will be exercised.
Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require two
doses per person. In total, the EU has booked nearly 1.3 billion vaccines in
deals with Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca/Oxford,
Sanofi/GSK and CureVac, and has options to buy another 660 million.
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