Israel Receives 4 Million Additional Doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine

Bola.com, Cambridge – The biotechnology company from the United States, Moderna Inc, is extending cooperation with Israel regarding the supply of the COVID-19 vaccine. According to reports Reuters, Friday (4/12/202), this made the Government of Israel get an additional supply of 4 million doses of the candidate vaccine COVID-19.

Israel has thus received an accent of 6 million doses of mRNA-1272 Moderna. Currently, the vaccine development process COVID-19 it is being reviewed by Israeli researchers.

There was no mention of the value of the cooperation signed by Moderna Inc and Israel. In addition, it is also not known when the schedule for sending additional doses of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

In June 2020, Israel signed a cooperation agreement with Moderna for the COVID-19 vaccine. This was done to protect its citizens from the new type of corona virus, in which Israel has reported 339,942 positive cases, among which the victims reached 2,890.

Moderna Inc said that it is currently continuing to increase global production. The move was taken so that it could deliver as many as 500 million doses per year and possibly as many as 1 billion doses a year starting in 2021.

Moderna has also applied for emergency use permits in the United States and the European Union. This was done after the results of the final stage study showed that the developed vaccine had an effectiveness of 94.1 percent without serious side effects.

Not only Moderna, the Israeli Government is also collaborating with AstraZeneca Plc regarding COVID-19. Israel will later receive 10 million doses of the vaccine COVID-19 of that Anglo-Swedish company.

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