The Ervebo vaccine is expected to be made available in Q3 2020. FMTNews
NEW JERSEY: Merck & Co said on Friday it expects to make licensed doses of its recently approved Ebola vaccine available in the third quarter of 2020 and price the single-dose injection at the lowest possible access price for poor and middle-income countries.
“We have made a commitment to making the vaccine available to Gavi-eligible countries at the lowest possible access price,” Merck spokesman Skip Irvine said.Stockpile of 500,00 doses of Ebola vaccine is being established for emergency use in outbreaks of the deadly fever by the Gavi global vaccine alliance, Reuters reported earlier this month. The stockpiling will start with Merck’s Ervebo vaccine.
“We are partnering with both Gavi and WHO to put that stockpile in place as quickly as possible,” the company said in a statement, adding that the stockpile of vaccines will be governed and executed by the owner of the stockpile and not by Merck. There have been more than 3,000 cases of Ebola, including 2,199 deaths, in the outbreak that was declared in August 2018. WHO declared it an international emergency in July 2019.
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