EU Reserves 300mn Doses Of Potential COVID-19 Vaccine
In this file photo taken on July 10, 2020 A photo shows vaccines in prefilled, single-use syringes before the inspection and packaging phase at the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi’s world distribution centre in Val de Reuil, France. JOEL SAGET / AFPThe EU announced Friday that it had struck a deal with French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi for 300 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine.
The announcement comes on the same day the US government said it would provide up to $2.1 billion to Sanofi and GSK for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, as the world continues to battle the pandemic. “We are in advanced discussions with several other companies,” she said in a statement, adding that Europe was investing in a “diversified portfolio of promising vaccines”.In this file photo taken on July 29, 2013, the headquarters of the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is pictured in west London. Ben STANSALL / AFPSanofi hopes to seek marketing authorisation from the European Medicines Agency for a vaccine in June next year.
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