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.