The European Commission announced the nation’s greatest vaccine supply agreement, promising to purchase up to 1.8 billion doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine over the next several years, as a controversy erupts over inequitable distribution of vaccines for the world’s most vulnerable people.<\/p>\n
The vaccinations developed by the American pharmaceutical company and its German collaborator BioNTech will be supplied between 2021 and 2023, according to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during a press conference.<\/p>\n
The pact, which comes as the EU strives to strengthen long-term supply, would be enough to immunize the 450 million EU population for two years.<\/p>\n
This is the bloc’s third deal with the two businesses, who have previously promised to provide 600 million units of the two-dose vaccination this year under two other contracts. By the end of the summer, Brussels hopes to have vaccinated at least 70 percent of EU adults.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will reach a conclusion in the coming days. During a visit to Pfizer’s vaccine production in Puurs, Belgium, von der Leyen stated, “It will secure the dosages required to deliver booster shots to improve protection.”<\/p>\n
The decision comes as World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated vaccinations are still out of grasp for low-income nations in remarks honoring the one-year milestone of the COVAX facility dose sharing.<\/p>\n
It is the latest step by Brussels to raise its chances on the businesses’ use of messenger RNA (mRNA) mechanism while sidelining those employing viral vector innovation used by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.
\nThe Commission is considering cutting relations with AstraZeneca after the company cut its delivery goal owing to production issues. It threatened a lawsuit.
\nVaccines from Astra and J&J have been related to an extremely uncommon but possibly catastrophic adverse event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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