The European Commission has ordered another 200 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty, bringing the bloc’s total order to 500 million doses.
The EU has hit back at AstraZeneca’s plan to provide fewer doses of its COVID-19 vaccine than expected, saying it wants to see exactly where supplies have been delivered so far.
Laboratory studies have confirmed that antibodies stimulated by Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine can neutralise the new, more transmissible variant of SARS-CoV-2 identified in the UK.