As the gradual uplifting of lockdowns in different countries around the world becomes a something all countries will love to partake in, Italy Germany, France and Netherlands have just signed a contract with Astrazeneca to supply a vaccine against the Corona Virus to the European citizens with a vaccine.
However, the European Commission have received a mandate on Friday to negotiate advance purchases of promising coronavirus vaccines, the EU’s top health official said, but it was unclear whether there would be enough money available for the project to be carried out.
Italy’s health minister said that the contract is for 400 million doses of the vaccine to be distributed and this vaccine was developed with the University of Oxford which their experimentation phase is already advanced and expected to end in autumn, said Roberto Speranza in a Facebook post.
However, He detailed that the first batch of the Covid 19 vaccine doses will be made available before the year runs out.
