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UK strikes deals to buy more potential COVID-19 vaccines

by REUTERS

LONDON Aug 14, 2020 - 10:05 am GMT+3
A scientist looks at protein samples at Novavax labs in Rockville, Maryland, U.S., March 20, 2020. (AFP Photo)
A scientist looks at protein samples at Novavax labs in Rockville, Maryland, U.S., March 20, 2020. (AFP Photo)
by REUTERS Aug 14, 2020 10:05 am

The United Kingdom will buy potential COVID-19 vaccines from U.S. drugmakers Johnson & Johnson and Novavax Inc., the companies said Friday, bringing the total number of deals by the British government to six as the race for shots heats up.

Johnson & Johnson said its Janssen Pharmaceutica unit will supply the U.K. government with its candidate known as Ad26.COV2.S with an initial sale of 30 million doses on a not-for-profit basis for emergency pandemic use.

The advance purchase agreement will also provide an option for an additional purchase of up to a 22 million doses, it said.

In a separate statement, Novavax said the U.K. would buy 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373, for a Phase 3 clinical trial.

With six deals each so far, Britain and the U.S. are leading the global race to strike deals with drugmakers for vaccines as the pandemic continues to rage.

The latest agreements bring the U.K.'s total number of doses secured to 362 million for the population of 66 million.

J&J said it has also agreed to collaborate with the U.K. government on a global Phase 3 trial to explore the two-dose regimen of its vaccine candidate.

It will run parallel to the Phase 3 trial investigating the single-dose program.

No vaccine has yet proven to work, but more than 20 candidates are in clinical trials.

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