EU expects more than a billion Covid shots by end of September, document shows

The European Union expects to have received more than a billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines by the end of September from four drugmakers, a document presented to EU leaders on Tuesday shows. The document, seen by Reuters and prepared by the European Commission, shows the EU is confident of having enough vaccines to immunize its entire eligible population of 450 million by the end of September, well beyond the initial goal of inoculating 70% of the adult population by the end of the summer. More precisely, the EU expects to get 413 million doses in the second quarter of this year, and another 529 million in the July-September period. It received 106 million vaccines in the first quarter. The estimates take into account only vaccines from four drugmakers: Pfizer-BionTech, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and Moderna.