The drugs giant signs new deals, but poorer countries will continue to get the vaccine at cost price.
AstraZeneca has started to move away from providing its Covid-19 vaccine to countries on a not-for-profit basis.
Mr Soriot had said previously: "We decided to provide it at no profit, because our top priority was to protect global health." "I absolutely don't regret it," Mr Soriot said. "We are proud as a company of the impact we have had - we've saved millions of hospitalisations. The [AstraZeneca] team continues to do a stellar job."He said that the contracts that had been signed are for next year, adding: "The virus is becoming endemic which means we have to learn to live with it.
However, Nick Dearden, director of campaign group Global Justice Now, said AstraZeneca's decision to start profiting from the vaccine while the coronavirus pandemic was continuing "shows the utter folly of giving away publicly-funded science to big pharma".
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