Brussels: The European Union (EU) has secured a deal to double the supply of the corona vaccince. 
 President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen said on Friday said that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, bringing its total to 600 million doses.

She told a press conference,  "We have right now, access to 300 million doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine. Now the good news is that we have agreed with BioNTech-Pfizer to extend the contract. With the new agreement, we could purchase a total of up to an additional 300 million doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine. In other words, this will allow us to double the number of doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer."Von der Leyen said the EU has so far secured up to 2.3 billion doses from the most promising vaccine candidates for the EU and its neighbourhood.

The delivery of additional doses will be starting in the second quarter (Q2) of 2021, with 75 million being available in Q2 and the rest in Q3 and Q4. The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 89,324,792. While 63,990,133 have recovered, 1,920,754 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 22,446,955 cases, and 378,085 have died from the disease there. 

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