US inks US$1.5 billion deal with Moderna for 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine | Malay Mail

Wednesday, 12 Aug 2020 08:30 AM MYT

WASHINGTON, Aug 12 — The United States has entered an agreement with drugmaker Moderna Inc to acquire 100 million doses of its potential Covid-19 vaccine for around US$1.5 billion , the company and White House said yesterday. Moderna’s vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, is one of the few that have already advanced to the final stage of testing and is on track to be completed in September, the company said this month.

The United States has advanced purchase agreements with Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca Plc, Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, and Sanofi SA and GlaxoSmithKline Plc for their respective vaccine candidates.

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