Food and Drug Administration has approved the
Pfizer-BioNTech‘s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use days after the Palace said Filipinos who prefer to be inoculated with it will have to wait longer.
This was confirmed by FDA Director and Health Undersecretary
Eric Domingo on Thursday.
The Pfizer-BioNTech was the first vaccine in the world that yielded a 95% success rate.
It was also the first one that the country’s FDA authorized for emergency use among the six other manufacturers that government officials are negotiating with, which including the vaccine from Chinese manufacturer
Sinovac Biotech Ltd.
FDA explained that the
emergency use authorization is “is an authorization issued for unregistered drugs and vaccines in a public health emergency” such as the COVID-19 pandemic.