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The European Medicines Agency on Friday approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus jab for 12- to 15-year-olds, the first vaccine to get the green light for children in the EU.
The European Medicines Agency on Friday approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus jab for 12- to 15-year-olds, the first vaccine to get the green light for children in the EU
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Amsterdam, Dec 22 (Prensa Latina) The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Monday authorized the use of a Covid-19 vaccine in the European Union (EU).
It is the Comirnaty vaccine, developed by the pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer, and will be submitted on Tuesday for approval to the European Commission (EC) to be distributed on Saturday to the EU member countries in order to start vaccination on Sunday 27.
This way, the EU must certify all safeguards, controls and obligations of the vaccine to extend the conditional marketing authorization for its use in persons over 16 years of age. Today s positive news is an important step forward in our fight against this pandemic, which has caused suffering to so many people, Emer Cooke, EMA s executive director, said.