On Jun. 22, 2021, Moderna announced that the European Commission (EC) had purchased an additional 150 million doses of Modernaﾒs COVID-19 vaccine, including the ability to purchase other COVID-19 vaccine candidates from Modernaﾒs pipeline.

This purchase brought the ECﾒs confirmed order commitment to 460 million doses. Under the terms of the agreement, delivery of Modernaﾒs updated variant booster vaccine candidate will begin in 2022.