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(Fight against new corona pneumonia) Pfizer and BioNTech submit an application for the use of the new corona vaccine to the EU, Germany is expected to start vaccination in January
China News Agency, Berlin, December 1 (Journalist Peng Dawei) German BioNTech and Pfizer announced on Day 1 that they had formally applied for a conditional marketing license from the European Medicines Agency for their jointly developed COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. CMA) is expected to be approved before the end of the year. German Health Minister Span said on the same day that Germany is expected to be able to vaccinate the first high-risk groups and medical personnel with the new crown vaccine in January next year.
The new corona vaccine BNT162b2 jointly developed by German Biotech and Pfizer of the United States uses messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology. Results from phase III clinical trials show that this vaccine is 95% effective.
The two companies stated that they had submitted applications for conditional marketing authorization or emergency use to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the British Administration of Medicines and Products of Health (MHRA), and had already applied for a conditional marketing authorization or emergency use in Australia. , Canada and Japan have initiated mobile filing procedures and plan to apply to regulatory agencies in other countries around the world. According to a German television report, on the same day, Modena from the United States also submitted a conditional marketing authorization application to the European Medicines Agency for its new crown vaccine.
German Health Minister Span told German media that the German government’s goal is to vaccinate the first group of high-risk groups and medical personnel with the new crown vaccine by January next year. In mid-December this year all the vaccination centers installed in the German states will be ready. By the summer of next year, Germans will be able to receive the new crown vaccine at general clinics. Shi Pan emphasized that the first to be vaccinated should be the elderly and those with underlying diseases.
As of December 1, Germany began to implement enhanced anti-epidemic measures. From that day until December 20, private meetings only allow the participation of up to two families and no more than 5 people. At the same time, the scope of the masking order has also been extended to all public places.
Germany’s current round of “city lockdown” has been in place since November 2, and the number of new coronavirus infections just diagnosed in a single day has started to decline significantly. The German disease control agency announced on day 1 that the number of new confirmed cases was 13,604. German real-time data from the “Times Online” at 18:00 on day 1 showed that a total of 1,079,713 confirmed cases, 758,627 cured and 16,963 died in Germany. (End up)
