Australia to shore up 85 million free doses of COVID-19 vaccine
17:36, 7 September 2020
SYDNEY. KAZINFORM Australia will produce and distribute nearly 85 million doses of new COVID-19 vaccines in early 2021, if trials are successful, under a billion-dollar agreement with two pharmaceutical companies announced Monday.
Under the deal, worth about AU$1.7 billion ($1.2 billion), the University of Oxford with AstraZeneca and the University of Queensland with CSL will provide more than 84.8 million vaccine doses for the Australian population, almost entirely manufactured in Melbourne, according to a statement issued by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, EFE-EPA reports.
