Moderna’s vaccine for COVID variants to be ready for shipment in August – CEO

LONDON, June 22 (Reuters) – Moderna’s vaccine for variants of COVID-19 will be ready to ship in August as the company has been manufacturing doses ahead of approval, CEO Stéphane told Reuters on Wednesday. Bancel, who added that the only bottleneck for supply was the regulatory one.

“Our goal is already in August, since we are going to present all the data in June, at the end of June… we hope that the vaccine will be authorized by August,” Bancel said in an interview.

“We will be able to start shipping it in the month of August. In some countries it could be in September, but that will really be a regulatory decision. Because what is (the) bottleneck now is the regulation. From the point of view of manufacturing , we are producing the vaccine”.

(Reporting by Alistair Smout; editing by William James; translation by Flora Gómez)

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