North Macedonia’s faltering COVID-19 vaccination program has picked up speed, with authorities starting to use 200,000 Chinese-made Sinopharm jabs flown in last week
North Macedonia speeds up vaccinations as EU aid arrives
May 4, 2021
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1of14People wait after being vaccinated at the center for mass vaccination against COVID-19, at A1 Arena in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The European Union started delivering EU-funded coronavirus vaccines Tuesday to the Balkans, a region that wants to join the 27-nation bloc but where China and Russia have already been supplying the much-needed shots and making political gains.Boris Grdanoski/APShow MoreShow Less
2of14A nurse administers a vaccine to a woman at the center for mass vaccination against COVID-19, at A1 Arena in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The European Union started delivering EU-funded coronavirus vaccines Tuesday to the Balkans, a region that wants to join the 27-nation bloc but where China and Russia have already been supplying the much-needed shots and making political gains.Boris Grdanoski/APShow MoreShow Less
EU Medical Official Cautions Member States Against Early Approval Of Russian Vaccine
March 08, 2021 02:27 GMT
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A senior official with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has warned European Union members to hold off from giving national authorization for the Russian-developed Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine until the agency finishes its safety review. We need documents that we can review. We also don t at the moment have data.about vaccinated people, EMA managing board chief Christa Wirthumer-Hoche told Austrian broadcaster ORF on March 7. It is unknown. That s why I would urgently advise against giving a national emergency authorization, she said. We can have Sputnik V on the market here in future when the appropriate data have been reviewed. The rolling review has begun now at EMA, she added.