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FRANKFURT (REUTERS) – Moderna will charge governments between US $ 25 and US $ 37 (S $ 33.60 and S $ 49.70) per dose of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, depending on the quantity ordered, said the CEO Stephane Bancel to the German weekly Welt am Sonntag (WamS).
“Our vaccine, therefore, costs about the same as a flu vaccine, which is between $ 10 and $ 50,” he said.
Last Monday (November 16), an EU official involved in the talks said that the European Commission wanted to reach an agreement with Moderna to supply millions of doses of its candidate vaccine at a price of less than $ 25 a dose. .
“Nothing has been signed yet, but we are close to reaching an agreement with the EU Commission. We want to comply with Europe and we are in constructive talks,” Bancel told WamS, adding that it was only “a matter of days” until that a contract was reached. would be ready.
Moderna has said its experimental vaccine is 94.5 percent effective in preventing Covid-19, according to interim data from a late-stage clinical trial, becoming the second developer to report results that far exceeded expectations after Pfizer and its BioNTech partner.
The EU has been in talks with Moderna for its experimental Covid-19 vaccine since at least July.
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