Doses of vaccines from the Pfizer / BioNTech laboratory – Christian Charisius / POOL / AFP
The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced this Saturday a new contract to buy up to 1.8 billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines from BioNTech-Pfizer, in a message on Twitter.
Happy to announce that @EU_Commission has just approved a contract for guaranteed 900 million doses (+900 million options) with @BioNTech_Group @Pfizer for 2021-2023.
Other contracts and other vaccine technologies will follow.
– Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) May 8, 2021
The contract includes a firm order for 900 million doses and an option for another 900 million. These new deliveries, scheduled for this year and until 2023, will make it possible in particular to adapt to new variants of the coronavirus, but also to vaccinate children and adolescents.