Total amounts to 600 million doses

Pfizer and Biontech provide 100 million additional vaccine doses to the European Union

One of the vaccination centers against "Corona" in France.

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Yesterday, the American company Pfizer and its German partner Biontech announced that they will provide an additional 100 million doses of the anti-virus vaccine developed by the two companies to the 27 member states of the European Union in 2021, and thus the total number of doses that will be delivered to the European Union will be 600 million doses.

The vaccine will be produced at manufacturing sites for both Pfizer and Biontech in Europe.

The approval of the two companies comes on the heels of the European Commission’s decision to exercise the option to purchase 100 million additional doses under the expanded advanced purchase agreement signed on February 17th.

The two companies said they plan to deliver 250 million doses to the European Union in the second quarter of this year, four times the amount agreed upon in the first quarter.

“The additional 100 million optional doses will help further support the acceleration of vaccination campaigns across the European Union,” said Biontech Chief Business Officer and Chief Commercial Officer, Shane Marit.

We intend now to provide a total of 600 million doses to the European Union this year, which covers two-thirds of the population of the European Union and represents the largest cumulative supply agreement (Commernate) to date in the world.

In addition, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said that Japan is likely to get adequate doses of the "Pfizer-Biontech" vaccine by next September.

The Japanese Radio and Television Corporation reported that Suga asked Pfizer CEO Albert Burla last week to obtain additional doses of the vaccine during his recent visit to Washington.

When asked about the possibility of declaring a state of emergency in Osaka Prefecture, where the virus is spreading widely, Suga replied that the situation is being dealt with with a strong sense of crisis.

He explained that the national government and the government of Osaka are doing everything in their power to secure hospital beds for those infected with the virus, noting that officials continue to work together to deal with the pandemic.

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