LIVE | Britons buy another 2 million doses of Moderna vaccine | Inland

The UK has ordered a further 2 million doses of the vaccine candidate from the pharmaceutical company Moderna. The British government announced this on Sunday.

This means that the United Kingdom will soon have enough doses of Moderna vaccines in house to vaccinate 3.5 million people. The country has already purchased vaccines from other pharmaceutical companies. That is enough for 357 million doses in total.

“With a wide range of vaccine candidates in our portfolio, we are ready to deploy a vaccine if they get approval from our drug agency, starting with those who will benefit the most,” said Public Health Minister Matt Hancock.

Moderna’s vaccine is very promising and, according to initial findings from the latest tests, will protect nearly 95 percent of subjects. The European Commission earlier this week approved the purchase of up to 160 million doses of the US-made vaccine. It is the sixth possible vaccine that the EU has obtained. The Netherlands could receive more than 6 million doses.

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