“We did not renew the order after June. We’ll see what happens,” said Breton, adding that it was “a very good vaccine”.Europe’s medicines regulator said on Friday it is reviewing reports of a rare nerve-degenerating disorder in people who received the shots, a move that comes after it found the vaccine may have caused very rare blood clotting cases.
Breton said an increase in prices for second-generation vaccines could be justified by the extra research required and potential changes to industrial equipment. The European Union signed a new contract with Pfizer-Biontech to receive 1.8 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines for 2021-2023, to cover booster shots, donations, and reselling of doses, the European Commission said on Friday.
“There may be a little extra cost but I will let the competent authorities unveil it in due course,” he told France Inter radio.