The European Union is negotiating advance purchase deals of potential COVID-19 vaccines with drugmakers Moderna , Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson and biotech firms BioNtech and CureVac, two EU sources told Reuters.
FILE PHOTO: A small bottle labeled with a"Vaccine" sticker is held near a medical syringe in front of displayed"Coronavirus COVID-19" words in this illustration taken April 10, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic//File Photo
The multiple talks confirm the bloc’s more assertive stance on procuring potential COVID-19 shots and drugs after Washington’s early moves in securing promising treatments and vaccines. The most advanced EU talks appear to be those with Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi, confirming a Reuters report in June, because the EU is already discussing details on the number of doses needed.
Negotiations were also ongoing, sources said, with U.S. firm Moderna, whose experimental COVID-19 vaccine showed this week it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, according to U.S. researchers. CureVac is a pioneer in the so-called messenger RNA approach, which is also being pursued by BioNTech and Moderna.
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