Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.The Australian Government has signed an agreement with AstraZeneca for the supply of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate developed by the University of Oxford.
This deal will provide the vaccine to every Australian for free, if found to be safe and effective in clinical trials, said the country’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
A final formal agreement will be signed for distribution, timing and price of the vaccine. Morrison noted that the candidate is in Phase III human trials and yet to be validated.