EU Firms Invited To Discuss Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Contracts
Commission Says Strategy ‘Will Avoid Competition Between Us’
Executive Summary
A common EU approach to the purchasing of COVID-19 vaccines has been welcomed by national health ministers. The strategy involves advance payments to companies to help build up manufacturing capacity and reserve quantities of vaccines once they become available.
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