Vaccination against COVID-19 starts across the EU
After COVID-19 vaccine has been delivered to all EU countries, the Vaccination Days started on 27 December across the EU. President von der Leyen said the Vaccination Days were ‘a touching moment of unity and a European success story’.
Securing doses of future vaccines
The European Commission is working closely with pharmaceutical companies and the European Medicines Agency to ensure that a safe and effective vaccine becomes available as soon as possible. As with any vaccine, they will go through rigorous scientific assessment before they are put on the market.
The European Commission has secured agreements with 6 promising vaccine developers so far, and more may come.
Vaccines secured by the Commission
- 2 billion doses
Information about vaccination in the EU
Hear from the experts
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Peter Piot, virologist
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Dr Frank Ulrich Montgomery,
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Videos of experts on a COVID-19 vaccine
Hear from the people
Borislava Ananieva, transplant patient |
Check the facts
Disinformation on the coronavirus is thriving. It is important that you get updated information from authoritative sources only. We suggest that you follow the advice of your public health authorities, and the websites of relevant EU and international organisations: the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC ) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
You can also help by not sharing unverified information that comes from dubious sources.
The EU vaccine strategy
With the EU Vaccine Strategy, the EU is supporting efforts to accelerate the development and availability of safe and effective vaccines in a timeframe between 12 and 18 months, if not earlier. Delivering on this complex task requires running clinical trials in parallel with investing in production capacity to be able to produce millions, or even billions, of doses of a successful vaccine.