Moderna to Deliver 20 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine to Argentina

Moderna. announced a supply agreement in a July 12, 2021 press release with the government of Argentina for 20 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine or its updated variant booster vaccine candidate, if authorized. Delivery will begin the first quarter of 2022.

“We appreciate the support from the government of Argentina with this supply agreement for doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine or our variant booster candidates,” said Stéphane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna, in a press release. “We are committed to making our vaccine available around the world as we seek to address the pandemic with our COVID-19 vaccine.”

The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 encoding for a prefusion stabilized form of the spike protein. Moderna has received emergency authorization for the vaccine for adults from health agencies in more than 50 countries and an Emergency Use Listing from WHO.

Source: Moderna