Private companies look to AstraZeneca for boosters

By Catherine S. Valente

Dec 11, 2021 12:30 am

A GROUP of private companies is negotiating with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca for another batch of Covid-19 vaccines to be used as booster shots next year, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Jose Maria 'Joey' Concepcion 3rd said.

In a statement Friday, Concepcion said his nonprofit organization Go Negosyo set up the meeting between more than 350 firms and the vaccine maker 'to streamline initial plans to procure Covid-19 vaccines for 2022.'

AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. AFP Photo

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