LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) - Italy, Germany, the Netherlands
and France will pay 750 million euros ($843.1 million) for 300
million doses of AstraZeneca's potential COVID-19 vaccine as
part of a European deal to secure supplies of the drug, a
spokesman for Italy's health ministry said on Monday.
The countries also have an option to buy a further 100
million doses, the spokesman said. For its portion of the deal,
Italy will pay about 185 million euros for 75 million doses.
($1 = 0.8896 euros)
(Reporting by Emilio Parodi in Milan
Writing by Josephine Mason
Editing by David Goodman
)