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Germany asks the European Medicines Agency (EMA) work “faster” to authorize the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech before Christmas. The statement was made by German Health Minister Jens Spahn.
The vaccine has already been approved in the United Kingdom and the United States, which have already started vaccination campaigns.
„Our goal is to have the authorization before Christmas, so that we can start vaccination this year, even in Germany. In the end, the EMA decides“, He mentioned according to Agerpres.
The agency is already working „without scales“EMA director Emer Cooke said Monday, adding that a decision must be made by December 29.
Germany has tightened its measures quarantine at the national level following an agreement reached over the weekend between Chancellor Angela Merkel and the 16 prime ministersme.
A partial lockdown in early November failed to stop a second wave of infections. Currently, all stores, except the essential ones, are closed and the vast majority of schoolchildren will return to distance education.
Editing: Monica Bonea
