Italy, Germany, France and Netherlands have secured 400 million doses of a possible coronavirus vaccine for Europe after signing a contract with British drug-maker.
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Europe secures 400 million prospective coronavirus vaccines from British drug-maker
British drug-maker AstraZeneca said on Saturday it signed a contract with Italy, Germany, France and the Netherlands to provide Europe with a vaccine versus the coronavirus, with deliveries beginning by the end of 2020.
The contract is for up to 400 million dosages of the vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford, the business said, including that it was seeking to broaden manufacturing of the vaccine, which it promised to offer no revenue during the pandemic.
” With our European supply chain due to begin production soon, we want to make the vaccine offered widely and quickly,” President Pascal Soriot stated in a statement.
The experimentation phase of the vaccine is already advanced and expected to end in the fall, Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza stated in a Facebook post.
AstraZeneca has actually agreed m