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All vaccines available in Europe and Italy and those coming soon

2021-01-31T11:04:45.606Z


There are eight anti Covid-19 vaccines, among the first three currently available in Europe and Italy, and another five that could arrive in the coming weeks and months. In the world 237 are being tested (ANSA)


There are eight anti Covid-19 vaccines, among the first three currently available in Europe and Italy, and another five that could arrive in the coming weeks and months.


They are a small part of the 67 vaccine candidates that have been designed around the world in record time, and which are being tested on humans.

To these, according to the updated list drawn up by the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 174 vaccine candidates who are still facing pre-clinical trials.

Of the three anti Covid-19 vaccines already available in Europe and Italy, the first to be approved was that of the Anglo-Swedish company Pfizer-BioNTech, which according to data released so far comes to give 95% protection to 12 days from the administration of the second dose.

The second in order of approval was the vaccine of the American Moderna, which gives comparable protection to the previous vaccine, and which is studying the possibility of administering a third dose to further increase the immune response against the new variants of the SARS CoV2 virus.


The AstraZeneca vaccine has just received the green light, which reaches an immunity of around 60% after two doses, which can be administered with an interval that can go from four to 12 weeks, and that the Italian Medicines Agency ( Aifa) approved with the indication for preferential use from 18 to 55 years.

These are the weapons currently available to combat the pandemic.

But in the coming weeks, the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) ok is expected for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and later it could be the turn of another American vaccine, that of Novavax.

It is not excluded, then, that Europe can give the green light to the Russian Sputnik vaccine and that of the Chinese company Sinovac.

On the horizon in Italy there is also the vaccine of Reithera, the company of Castel Romano (Rome) in which the Italian State has decided to enter with public capital, and which could be available from September.

They are very different vaccines: some developed with technologies used for the first time, such as those that use the messenger Rna molecule, such as those from Pfizer and Moderna.

They are just the first to have reached the milestone of approval by the regulatory authorities, in a situation never experienced before. 

Source: ansa

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