Today, Monday, 74,000 doses of the Corona vaccine Valneva will be delivered in Austria. The vaccine is the only inactivated vaccine developed in Europe by the Austro-French company Valneva. The vaccine will be delivered to the federal states from Thursday. It is the sixth coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the EU.
Austria has ordered 150,000 doses of the vaccine, for which the biotech company Valneva received approval for the vaccine in the EU on 24 June after a long wait. The competent committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended the vaccine, called VLA2001, for use as a primary vaccine in people aged 18 to 50 years.
“With the approval of Valneva’s vaccine, there is now another alternative for those who had concerns about other vaccine technologies or for whom another vaccine is not an option for medical reasons,” Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) said Monday. He appealed again: “The vaccination is working! It is the best protection against a serious course of the disease as part of a corona infection.”
EU Stamped Supply Contract
In July, the European Commission massively canceled the supply contract with Valneva. Under the revised agreement, Valneva commits to supply 1.25 million doses to EU countries. There is also an option to purchase an additional 1.25 million doses of the inactivated vaccine before the end of the year. Originally, the delivery of 60 million doses was agreed, of which about 27 million for this year.
VLA2001 is an ‘adjuvanted whole virus inactivated vaccine’ – commonly known as an inactivated vaccine. Because the vaccine contains killed components of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. There are also substances called adjuvants that enhance the effect. The vaccine contains no preservatives. However, Valneva’s vaccine can also be stored for a longer period of time at refrigerator temperature – which is a great advantage in practice.
Source: Krone
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