If Trials Succeed, Greece Will Get 3 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses

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If Trials Succeed, Greece Will Get 3 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses

August 18, 2020

FILE - This March 16, 2020 file photo shows vials used by pharmacists to prepare syringes used on the first day of a first-stage safety study clinical trial of the potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. The world s biggest COVID-19 vaccine test got underway Monday, July 27 with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers. The experimental vaccine is made by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., and it s one of several candidates in the final stretch of the global vaccine race.

As scientists around the world have scrambled to find a vaccine for COVID-19, Greece is set to get three million doses of a formula developed by the University of Oxford in collaboration with AstraZeneca if it passes a clinical trial.

Health minister Vassilis Kikilias said trials by the United Kingdom company have reached a third phase and a fourth is needed to see if the vaccine is effective and safe, with research and development on an unparalleled scale.

“At the end of December, January, February, March, May and June, if all goes well, Greece will receive in seven partial deliveries its allocation from the agreed vaccine,” he told broadcaster SKAI.

“We will start with 700,000 doses in December which will be a single or double dose, and around 3 million doses in total,” he added. He didn't say how it would be determined who has priority for the shots in a country of 11 million people.

The shot, called AZD1222 or ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, is a recombinant viral vector vaccine developed by Oxford University. It was licensed to AstraZeneca in April.

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