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EU to receive 100 million extra doses of Pfizer vaccine this year

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Pfizer-BioNTech has said it will deliver an extra 100 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine to the European Union this year.

It follows a decision by the EU to exercise an option to purchase an additional 100 million doses. Under the EU vaccination scheme, Ireland would be entitled to over one million of these vaccines, if it wanted to purchase the jabs.

The company said the move will bring the total number of doses supplied to the EU to 600 million this year. Pfizer said that all of the vaccines will be delivered in 2021. Latest coronavirus stories "We remain committed to moving as quickly and safely as possible to bring this vaccine to more people in Europe, as the deadly virus continues to wreak havoc across the continent," said Albert

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