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EU secures additional 100 million COVID-19 doses from Pfizer/BioNTech – Metro US

EU secures additional 100 million COVID-19 doses from Pfizer/BioNTech

COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Angers
COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Angers

BERLIN (Reuters) – The European Union has exercised an option to acquire an additional 100 million doses of BioNTech and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, the two companies said on Monday.

This brings the total number of doses to be delivered to the 27 EU members to 600 million in 2021, the companies said in a statement.

(Reporting by Caroline Copley, editing by Kirsti Knolle)