The UK says it has secured access to three different vaccine candidates, and is setting up a programme seeking 500,000 clinical trial volunteers
An employee of German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, demonstrates research on a vaccine for the coronavirus disease at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany, March 12, 2020. Picture: REUTERS/Andreas GebertThe UK has signed agreements to buy 90-million doses of vaccines in development by drugmakers including Pfizer, BioNTech and Valneva.
Pfizer and BioNTech plan to supply 30-million doses of their vaccine candidate in 2020 and 2021, the companies said in a separate statement. They will seek approval as early as October and could produce as many as 100-million doses by the end of 2020.
Unlike the Astra and Pfizer collaborations, Valneva isn’t in the lead of the coronavirus vaccine race, but the French company would manufacture the product at its factory in Livingston, Scotland. The experimental shot will enter clinical studies by the end of 2020 and Valneva said it expected the UK government to help fund the research.
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