European vaccine prices revealed in Belgian Twitter blunder: government minister revealed the confidential prices of six different vaccines against Covid-19.
This is the list of what the EU is paying:
Oxford/AstraZeneca: €1.78
Johnson & Johnson: $8.50
Sanofi/GSK: €7.56.
Pfizer/BioNTech: €12.
CureVac: €10.
Moderna: $18.
Every country in the world has an interest in mass vaccination against Covid and there is a big effort to put together a programme to ensure all countries can access enough to vaccinate the vulnerable. But drug and vaccine prices have always been very closely guarded commercial secrets.
Belgian secretary of state accidentally reveals EU vaccine prices: The information is protected by commercial confidentiality agreements.
Civil society groups, MEPs and health advocates have been calling
for months for the Commission to reveal how much the EU is paying,
arguing that deals involving taxpayer funds should have greater
transparency.
