Credit: REUTERS/CARLO ALLEGRIRecasts first paragraph with Pfizer announcement
OTTAWA, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc PFE.N and German biotech firm BioNTech SE 22UAy.F on Wednesday said they had signed a deal to supply Canada with an experimental coronavirus vaccine.
Deliveries of the BNT162 mRNA-based vaccine candidate are planned over the course of 2021, subject to clinical success and Health Canada approval, the two companies said in a statement. They did not reveal financial details.
Separately, the Canadian government said it would make an announcement on the next steps in procuring vaccines at 10 a.m. ET (1400 GMT) on Wednesday.
There are no approved vaccines for the illness caused by the new coronavirus, but 19 vaccines are being tested in humans around the world.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Jonathan Oatis)
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