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According to “Spiegel”, the pharmaceutical companies Biontech / Pfizer and Moderna offered the EU many more doses than it finally bought. A spokesman for the commission said they wanted to have the widest possible range of vaccines from various manufacturers.
According to a report by “Spiegel”, the EU could have bought more of the corona vaccine from the manufacturer Biontech / Pfizer (Germany / USA) than the up to 300 million doses ordered. Biontech had offered up to 500 million units, the magazine quoted in trading circles on Friday.
The Modern American company would also have it me It can deliver more of its vaccine than the agreed 160 million units, said the company’s boss, Stephane Bancel, the “Spiegel.”
The two vaccines are the first to appear in the me you can count on approval. In the case of Biontech / Pfizer, it is expected next week, in the case of Moderna in early January. In Austria on December 27 with Vaccinations started.
A spokesperson for me-The Commission did not want to comment on the course of negotiations with pharmaceutical companies, that the Brussels authority on behalf of the 27 me-The States had led. However, he said the goal was to have a broad portfolio of different vendors with different technologies. This would have increased the chances of obtaining an effective and inexpensive vaccine against the coronavirus.
Conventional vaccines are still a long way off
The price of Biontech / Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which have been developed using a novel process and also work in a novel way, is many times higher than conventionally functioning products, such as Astrazeneca (Great Britain / Sweden) wants to carry to the market and how they do it for example, in China, Russia, India and Israel are and have developed. This conventional vaccine would also not need to be stored at extremely low temperatures. However, the development of these conventionally functioning vaccines is currently slower and the approval date remains mostly open.
the Vaccinations however, it will take months anyway. Experts estimate that around 60 to 70 percent of the population would have to be vaccinated to stop the corona pandemic; That would be up to 58 million people in Germany and up to around 5.3 million in Austria.
(APA / DPA)
