The European Commission and Astra Zeneca have signed peace. The community executive has just announced the signing of an agreement with the pharmaceutical company for the delivery of the pending doses of the vaccine agreed in August 2020, 300 million units, and the end of its litigation before the courts of Brussels, where He demanded millions of euros in compensation for breach of contract.
“This agreement contains a firm commitment by Astra Zeneca to deliver, in addition to the around 100 million doses delivered until the second quarter of the year, 135 million before the end of 2021 and the remaining doses (65 million) by the end of March 2022 “, the European Commission announced in a statement.
Stellena Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health, has congratulated herself on having reached “a mutually satisfactory solution” that benefits “the citizens of Europe and the world” through her commitment to the Covax program to bring vaccines to the countries of the world. less developed. “The AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and effective and is saving lives around the world on a daily basis,” Kyriakides reiterated.
Delays in deliveries by the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company, to which the European Union had initially relied largely on its strategy to immunize its population, placed the bloc behind other countries, in particular the United States, in the global vaccination campaign. The pacts with Pfizer and Moderna gave a strong boost to the strategy during the spring and summer months, and at this time, despite the very different vaccination rates between its different member states, the immunization rate in the European Union has surpassed that of the United States.
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