Amsterdam-Sana
The European Medicines Agency today approved the British AstraZeneca vaccine against the emerging corona virus for all people over the age of 18.
Agence France-Presse quoted the Amsterdam-based agency as saying in a statement that it “recommended granting a conditional marketing license for the AstraZeneca vaccine to people over the age of 18,” noting that it believes that the vaccine is also suitable for the elderly.
On the other hand, the agency denied the existence of a relationship between the German-American Pfizer-Biontec vaccine and the deaths that were recorded among people who received it, explaining that it had seen the deaths that were recorded, including those that occurred among a number of elderly people, and concluded that the data did not show a relationship to the matter of receiving a "vaccine." Pfizer ”The cases do not raise any safety concerns.
It is noteworthy that the Regulatory Authority for Medicines and Medical Products in Britain approved the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine at the end of last month, which is the second anti-Corona vaccine to be approved after the Pfizer Biontech vaccine.