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Following the approval of Astra Seneca’s covid vaccine in the UK, there are indications that it will also be approved by the EU, according to a Swedish expert. It just takes a little longer.
Professor Matti Sällberg guesses that it will be the same assessment in the EU as in the UK.
– They are not part of the EMA (European Medicines Agency) in the same way as the rest of the EU. In the EU, everything must be coordinated and there are many countries that must agree, says Matti Sällberg, a professor and researcher on vaccines in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet.
– If you are a single country, it will be a little easier and smoother, he says.
He says Moderna and Astra Zeneca’s requests for approval of their coronavirus vaccines are currently being processed.
– This indicates that there are good conditions for the Astra Zeneca vaccine to be approved in the EU as well. If the English Medicines Agency judged the Astra studies to be good enough, I suppose it will be the same evaluation in the EU.
The same applies in Sweden.
– We do this together with the EU. If it is approved in the EU, it will be approved here.
TT: How long before we can start using the Astra vaccine here?
– What I heard last time was that Moderna’s vaccine could be used in early January and Astra’s in late January. But I don’t know if that will be the case.
TT: Will the scheme be reversed now that the Asta vaccine has been approved in the UK?
– I do not know.
TT: There are many hopes related to vaccination. How do we make sure we have to wait longer than in the UK?
– You still have to remember that it has been very fast to develop the vaccine, but it is still very important that the test itself takes the necessary time.
