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Coronavirus: List accidentally published - politician leaks prices for vaccine

2020-12-18T17:59:16.670Z


What does a dose of the different coronavirus vaccines cost? It was read on the Twitter profile of a Belgian politician on Thursday - apparently a mistake.


What does a dose of the different coronavirus vaccines cost?

It was read on the Twitter profile of a Belgian politician on Thursday - apparently a mistake.

Brussels - There was no official statement.

But since

Consumer Protection State Secretary Eva De Bleeker

deleted

her

tweet

a short time later, it can be assumed that it was an oversight.

The

Belgian politician

leaked

the prices for

corona vaccines from

those manufacturers from whom the EU Commission

ordered

vaccine doses

in

the

social media post

on Thursday

.

The newspaper Het

Laatste Nieuws

apparently saved a screenshot and has now published it.

The contracts with the

vaccine producers

, which were concluded on behalf of the EU member states, contain confidentiality clauses.

For this reason, the EU Commission refused to

comment

on

De Bleeker's tweet

.

In total, the EU originally had around 1.3 billion

vaccine doses *

ordered and secured the option for 660 million more

cans

.

The order from

Pfizer-Biontech

has already been increased from 200 to 300 million

cans

and the order from

Moderna

from 80 to 160 million cans.

While

Pfizer-Biontech

could get approval

later

this year,

Moderna is

likely

to follow

shortly thereafter as the next

vaccine

.

To read in the table: The

vaccine from

the Mainz company

Biontech *

and its US partner,

Pfizer

, costs 12 euros per dose.

Curevac

from Tübingen

charges

ten euros per

syringe

.

A

dose

of

Sanofi

from

France

costs 7.56 euros.

At $ 18 per dose, the vaccine from the US company Moderna is the most expensive.

According to the screenshot, the cheapest is the vaccine from AstraReneca.

It costs 1.78 euros.

Coronavirus: Germany has decided on vaccination strategy

Who should

receive

the

vaccinations against Covid-19 *

first?

Most countries agree on this question.

Health Minister Jens Spahn

signed a

vaccination ordinance

on Friday

, according to which older people and

caregivers

should be

vaccinated

first

.

The strategy looks similar

in the UK and USA, where the first

vaccinations

have

already been

administered.

Indonesia is completely different: the country has

ordered

a

vaccine

that has not yet been

tested

on

high-risk patients

.

This is another reason why the

strategy

aims to first

vaccinate

the young and more active

population group

in order to

indirectly reduce

the

risk for the very old

and

people with previous illnesses

.

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

Source: merkur

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