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EU decision on Pfizer pill ‘within weeks’

Pfizer pill

THE HAGUE, Jan 10, 2022 (AFP) – The EU’s drug regulator said Monday it could decide within weeks whether to approve Pfizer’s Covid pill, after the US pharma giant formally applied for authorisation. In December the European Medicines Agency (EMA) cleared individual states to decide whether to make early emergency use of the drug known as … Read more

EU set to back Novavax Covid vaccine

Novavax

THE HAGUE, Dec 20, 2021 (AFP) – The EU’s drug regulator will decide Monday whether to approve a Covid jab by Novavax, which uses a more conventional technology that the US biotech firm hopes will reduce vaccine hesitancy. Novavax’s jab, a protein-based vaccine of the kind used around the world to protect against many childhood illnesses, would be … Read more