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[November 11, 2021]
HARARE (Reuters) -Moderna Inc has offered
to sell its COVID-19 vaccines to the African Union at $7 a shot, head of
the Africa Centres for Disease Control John Nkengasong said on Thursday,
half the price paid by the United States earlier in the year.
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It is also a substantial discount to what other buyers like the
European Union have agreed this year, part of a broader trend for
drugmakers to sell at lower prices to lower income countries.
"I am happy to say that a dose of the Moderna vaccine will be $7.
That is what is being offered to us," Nkengasong told a weekly
virtual media briefing.
Earlier this year, Moderna said its deals outside the United States
had been struck at between $22 and $37 per dose. As those did not
include a lower income country, this is the first insight into the
kind of prices Moderna is prepared to charge poorer countries.
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Nkengasong said there was no
doubt that a fourth wave of the pandemic was
coming to Africa, where only 6% of the eligible
population has been fully vaccinated.
Africa has to date recorded 8.5 million cases
and 220,000 deaths, said Nkengasong.
(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Jon
Boyle and Jan Harvey)
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