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Vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus could begin in European Union countries in the first quarter of next year, says Andrea Ammon, head of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), reports Euronews.
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The European Union could pay $ 10 billion to provide several hundred million doses of the vaccines developed by Pfizer / BioNTech and CureVac, Mediafax reports.
The American company Moderna announced this week a 94.5% efficiency for the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing, being the second company in the United States to offer results far beyond expectations in this regard.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is currently “in daily discussions with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to synchronize coronavirus vaccine evaluations,” said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.
The EC has so far concluded five pre-order contracts with AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, CureVac, Pfizer / BioNTech and Santofi-GSK.
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