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The Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 could be approved by relevant British regulators by the end of next week, according to The Telegraph.
The British regulator will begin a formal evaluation of the Pfizer and BioNTech SE vaccine, and the British National Health Service (NHS) will announce that it is ready to administer doses of the vaccine on December 1, writes the Telegraph.
On Friday, Pfizer and BioNTech filed a petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). for the urgent authorization of your candidate vaccine.
The goal of both companies is to allow the vaccine to be used in vulnerable groups in the United States from mid to late December.
Pfizer has announced that the vaccine is more than 95% effective in adults.
The crucial meeting of the US authorities on December 10
The chief scientific advisor to the US immunization program, Moncef Slawi, said the first mass vaccinations in the United States could begin on December 11.
“Within 24 hours of approval, the vaccine could be delivered to the areas that each state has indicated to us,” he told NBC.
The Food and Drug Administration will meet on December 10 to consider the request for “emergency use” of the vaccine from US Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech.
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