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The NHS’s National Health Service was instructed to be ready for the vaccine administration from December 1, the Telegraph reports.
According to a media report, the corona vaccine from German biotech company BioNTech and US pharmaceutical company Pfizer could receive approval in Britain in the coming days. British supervisory authorities are about to start an official assessment of the agent, the Telegraph reported on Sunday, citing government circles.
The NHS from the National Health Service was instructed to be ready for administration from December 1. The London Health Ministry did not comment on when the first vaccines might start. On Friday, the two companies filed an application with the US FDA.The FDA will report on December 10 whether it should give the vaccine the green light.
The US authorities expect the first corona vaccines in mid-December. “Our plan is to be able to deliver vaccines to vaccination centers within 24 hours of approval,” the head of the US government’s vaccine task force, Moncef Slaoui, said on CNN on Sunday.
According to media reports, the US pharmaceutical agency FDA will decide on the approval of the corona vaccines between December 8 and 10. Slaoui said he expected the first vaccines “maybe the second day after approval, December 11-12.”
The pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna had recently reported on the success of developing a corona vaccine. Your vaccine candidates are at least 95 percent effective.
Pfizer and its German partner Biontech applied to the FDA for emergency approval of their vaccine on Friday. It would be the first approval of a corona vaccine in the United States, the country with the highest number of corona deaths in the world. The United States has already pre-ordered hundreds of millions of doses of the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. The previous week, the EU Commission had also approved a framework agreement with Pfizer / Biontech for EU states for the purchase of up to 300 million cans.
(APA / Reuters)
