Ireland to get 4.5m extra vaccine doses under new EU deal

More than 4.5m extra vaccine doses will be coming to Ireland as the EU signs a new deal with Moderna for 150m extra doses this year and confirm a deal with PfizerBioNTech for 300m additional doses.

More than 4.5m extra vaccine doses will be coming to Ireland as the EU signs a new deal with Moderna for 150m extra doses this year and confirms a deal with Pfizer/BioNTech for 300m additional doses.

More support for research into tackling Covid-19 variants was also announced on Wednesday by the European Commission, and it indicated a streamlining of the vaccine approval process is underway.