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2020.12.02 16:43 entry
Edit 2020.12.02 19:41
The UK government approved the use of the Corona 19 vaccine developed by the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the German Bioentech for the second time (local time) for the first time in the world. The UK government is expected to deliver the first vaccine to nursing home residents and healthcare workers from early next week.
The British government said on the day that “the drug regulatory agency (MHRA) has accepted the recommendation to approve the use of the Pfizer-Bioentech COVID-19 vaccine,” Reuters and the like said. did. The UK became the first country in the world to approve the COVID-19 vaccine, which has completed phase 3 clinical trials. The UK Medicines Regulatory Authority determined that the Pfizer vaccine, which was found to have an efficacy 95% in a phase 3 clinical trial, it was safe.
The UK government has ordered 20 million doses (40 million doses) of the Pfizer vaccine in advance. By the end of this year, 5 million people (10 million doses) are expected to reach the UK first, and priority targets will be able to receive the vaccine within a few days, the BBC said. Health Minister Matt Hancock told Twitter that “we are ready to start immunization early next week.” The UK ranks nursing home residents, healthcare workers, people aged 80 and over, and other social workers as the number one vaccine.
Russia has approved its own developed ‘Sputnik V’ vaccine, and the Chinese military has approved the use of the pharmaceutical company’s Cansino vaccine, but this is the first time that a vaccine showing immune effects has been approved in a clinical trial in the West. . Pfizer Chief Executive Officer Albert Bulla welcomed the UK emergency use approval and said: “I appreciate the MHRA’s careful assessment and its timely action to protect the British.”
Pfizer and Bioentech submitted an application for emergency use to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the 20th of last month, and the FDA plans to review the application before the 10th.
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