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ARCHIVED - EC places order for up to 400 million Covid vaccines from German company CureVac
Five such deals have already been reached and talks with Moderna are on-going
Spain is part of the EC block buying programme which aims to ensure that members of the European Union obtain vaccines at advantageous prices and have access to vaccines without the need for each government to enter into the bidding processes independently.
Governments all over the world are currently scrambling to ensure that when reliable coronavirus vaccines are finally ready for distribution they have advance orders in place in order to satisfy the first wave of demand, and on Monday the European Commission announced that apart from the order already placed with AstraZeneca the purchase of up to a further 400 million doses of vaccine from the German pharmaceutical company CureVac has been agreed.
At the same time, the EC is still negotiating with Moderna in an effort to reach a similar agreement with the American company, which claimed a 94.5 per cent success rate for its own vaccine on Monday after analysis of the preliminary results of the third phase of clinical testing.
EC President Ursula von der Leyen stated that the agreement reached with CureVac will be ratified this Tuesday and the document will be officially signed within a matter of weeks.
This latest deal becomes the fifth of its kind to be finalized by the EC, adding to those agreed with AstraZeneca, Sanofi/GSK, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer/BioNTech. The first three are already signed off, which the small print of the fourth is still being discussed, while the latest news regarding a possible deal with Moderna is that a preliminary agreement was reached in August for the purchase of 80 million doses.
In the meantime, Mrs con der Leyen reports that “exploratory conversations” are being held with other companies, adding that it is not yet known which vaccine or vaccines will end up being the safest and most effective. The European Medicines Agency will ratify them only after performing its own rigorous analysis, and the EC President explains that for this reason it is necessary to build up a large portfolio of vaccines based on different approaches and techniques.