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EU hails deals to get more vaccine shots, tackle variants

by Frank JordansSamuel Petrequin
| February 18, 2021 12:06 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union announced Wednesday that it has agreed to buy a further 300 million doses of Moderna's vaccine against COVID-19 and was injecting almost a quarter of a billion euros (almost $300 million) into efforts to counter the threat of coronavirus variants that are spreading on the continent.

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