MILAN (ITALY) – Commissioner Thierry Breton has announced that the European Union aims to increase the region’s COVID-19 vaccine production capacity to 2-3 billion doses per year by the end of 2021.
He also urged member states to implement their vaccination policies quickly “because the capacity to produce doses is increasing from week to week”, he said in an interview with Corriere della Sera, an Italian daily.
Breton said that while around 43 million doses have been delivered to the EU so far only 30.2 million have been administered. He further added that the bloc was targeting deliveries of 95-100 million doses by the end of March.