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Swissmedic plans to approve a Covid vaccine in the next two weeks. Then you can start with the vaccines.
In the US, vaccination with Pfizer / Biontech serum is already running: Switzerland is also about to start vaccination in 2020.
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Now everything can go very fast: the Swissmedic pharmaceutical authority will probably approve the first Covid vaccine in the next two weeks. “It is very likely that approval can still be granted in Switzerland in December,” says Swissmedic deputy editor Philippe Girard of this newspaper. To start vaccinating, you only need the approval of the first batch of vaccine and the recommendation of the Federal Vaccination Commission (Ekif). Vaccination could start this year.
According to experts, Switzerland will allow Covid vaccines at the same time as the European Union. The approval date should also be based on whether the corresponding vaccine can also be delivered and distributed, as you can hear. In Germany, the Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, has set the date for the start of vaccination on December 27 this week.
