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The European Union could give the green light in December to Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines

11/20/2020, 9:14:53 PM


The European Medicines Agency could "give conditional marketing authorization from the second half of December, if the procedures go smoothly," said the European Commission.

The European regulator could give the green light from mid-December to market the anti-Covid vaccines developed by the American startup Moderna and by the Pfizer / BioNTech alliance, European Commission President Ursula von der announced on Thursday. Leyen.

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is

"in daily discussions" with its American counterpart, the FDA, to "synchronize their evaluations"

, and the EMA could

"give conditional authorization to market Pfizer's vaccines / BioNTech and Moderna from the second half of December, if the procedures go smoothly

,

said the head of the European executive at the end of a summit of the Twenty-Seven by videoconference dedicated to the pandemic.