London (CNN Business) Covid-19 vaccines have created at least nine new billionaires after shares in companies producing the shots soared. Moderna MRNA BioNTech BNTX Pfizer PFE Topping the list of new billionaires areCEO Stéphane Bancel and Ugur Sahin, the CEO of, which has produced a vaccine with. CanSino Biologics' stock is up about 440% over the same period. The company's single-dose Covid-19 vaccine was approved for use in China in February. The nine new billionaires are worth a combined $19.3 billion, enough to fully vaccinate some 780 million people in low-income countries, campaigners said.
