Thus, this is the second Covid-19 vaccine approved by Europe for use after the vaccine, produced by two US pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and German BioNTech.
On personal Twitter, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that Europe has signed agreements to order about 2 billion potential doses of vaccine, including 160 million doses of Moderna vaccine.
Before Europe, the US, Canada, and Israel had approved the Covid-19 vaccine from the pharmaceutical company Moderna.