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European Union to start COVID-19 vaccinations on December 27 The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, says COVID-19 vaccinations in the European Union will start at the end of the month.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is currently assessing an application for Conditional Marketing Authorisation (CMA) for the Pfizer/BioNTech candidate, BNT162b2. A meeting of the EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has been brought forward by a week to Monday (December 21); and a favorable opinion could see the vaccine authorized a few days later.
The technology from Germany’s BioNTech, developed with US partner Pfizer, would become the first COVID-19 vaccine available in Europe.
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In a tweet this morning, European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, said that on the 27th, 28th, 29th December, vaccination will start across the EU, following her similar announcement in the European Parliament yesterday, where she stated that as the EU has been united through the pandemic, “we will get out of it together, and united.”
On 27, 28 and 29 December vaccination will start across the EU.
“To end the pandemic, we need up to 70% of the population vaccinated. This is a huge task. So let’s start rapidly with the vaccination together, as 27, on the same day,” von der Leyen said yesterday.
It s expected the Moderna vaccine will be approved for use by the EMA in January.
Deliveries of the vaccine will from production sites in Belgium and Germany will begin on 26 December, but it will be up to each of the 27 EU states to coordinate their own vaccine programmes.
Speaking on Thursday, Tanaiste Leo Varadkar said that people will be given some form of proof of vaccination once they ve received the vaccine in Ireland, but at this moment he s unsure of what this will look like.
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