Moderna, EU push back COVID vaccine deliveries by several months

-Moderna Inc will delay its COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to the European Union by a number of months underneath an settlement introduced on Thursday.

The U.S.-based vaccine maker will postpone the supply of some doses initially deliberate for the second quarter of 2022 to later within the 12 months, the European Fee mentioned in a press release.

That is the bloc’s second settlement with vaccine producers to optimise provide because it gears up for a possible booster marketing campaign within the fall.

In Might, Pfizer Inc and German associate BioNTech SE additionally agreed to push again COVID vaccine deliveries by three months.

The European Fee plans to finalise extra such agreements within the close to future, it mentioned.